Wrong on Race The Democratic Party's Buried Past [Paperback]

On the tails of an election with the subject of race at the forefront,Wrong on Raceuncovers a hidden past that many Democrats would rather see swept under the carpet. Ranging from the founding of the Republic through to today, it rectifies the unfair perceptions of America's two national parties. While Nixon's infamous Southern Strategy is constantly referenced in the media, less well remembered are Woodrow Wilson's segregation of the entire Federal civil service; FDR's appointment of a member of the KKK to the Supreme Court; John F. Kennedy's apathy towards civil rights legislation; and the ascension of Robert Byrd, who is current President pro tempore of the Senate, third in line in the presidential line of succession, and a former member of the KKK.

Bruce Bartletthas had a nationally syndicated newspaper column for the last ten years, and has written forThe New York Times,Wall Street Journal,Commentary,The National Review, andFortune. He was a domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan and a treasury official under President George H.W. Bush.

Introduction *PART I: THE RACIST ORIGINS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY* Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Stephen A. Douglas Sow the Seeds of Civil War * Andrew Johnson: The Man Who Tried to Wreck Reconstruction and Paved the Way for Jim Crow *PART II: SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS: RACIST TO THE CORE* Ben Tillman, Cole Blease, and James F. Byrnes: Democrats of South Carolina * Tom Watson, Hoke Smith, Eugene Talmadge, and Richard B. Russell: Democrats of Georgia * James Vardaman and Theodore Bilbo: Democrats of Mississippi *PART III: DEMOCRATS IN THE WHITE HOUSE: BLACKS SENT TO THE BACK DOOR* Woodrow Wilson: Reactionary Progressive * Franklin D. Roosevelt: Insensitive Liberal *PART IV: DEMOCRATIC RACISM FINALLY REPUDIATED* Harry S. Truman: Unsung Civil Rights Hero * Democrats Jump on the Civil Rights Bandwagon * Racial Double Standards