| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Race, Color, and Partial Blindness: Affirmative Action under the Law. By Ole O. Moen. (Oslo: Solum Forlag, 2001. 302 pp. Paper, ISBN 82-560-1323-0.)

Ole O. Moen is a Scandinavian scholar who has spent time as a visitor at several American universities. His professed goal is to "'tell the story of affirmative action' in a more balanced manner." His account should please conservatives with its substance and liberals with its rhetoric. 1

Like many conservative writers, Moen notes Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey's assurances that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was "'color-blind' and would not require preferential treatment of any particular group." Moen further concedes that "there is no direct proof anywhere that Lyndon B. Johnson meant 'affirmative action' to be the color-conscious regulatory tool that it was later to become." He notes that President Johnson's executive orders required only an aggressive search for qualified minority applicants who, once found, would go into a pool of qualified candidates, with the final selection made on a color-blind basis. Moen knows that the original concept required employers, in the words of Executive Order 11246,

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