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AMERICAN HISTORY

FORTHCOMING
Racism and the American Presidency

How Presidents Have Handled Racial Issues—
From Washington to Obama
DARYL A. CARTER

Nearly every American president has dealt with issues concerning race, from Washington
to Obama. Thomas Jefferson recognized the role of slaves in his election, Andrew Jackson
advocated for the common white man, Abraham Lincoln emancipated slaves, and John F.
Kennedy called civil rights “a moral issue.” This important book shows how presidents—
September 2017, 196pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 the supreme political actors in the United States—have both influenced issues of race and
Print: 978-1-4408-3079-2 reflected the sentiments of the masses.
$37.00, £29.00, €34.00
eBook: 978-1-4408-3080-8 FEATURES
• Provides readers with valuable insight into how U.S. presidents have dealt with the issue
DARYL A. CARTER, PhD, is associate of race across history
professor of history at East Tennessee • Demonstrates how presidents have often overlooked the interests and needs of African
State University, Johnson City, TN.
Americans due to their own political needs
• Documents how the push for equality in the United States has been marked by fits and
starts, forward progress followed by backlash
• Offers insightful perspectives into racism in America that will serve historians and
academics across the spectrum as well as students and lay readers

Two Nations, Indivisible

A History of Inequality in America
JAMIE L. BRONSTEIN

In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson famously asserted that “all men are created
equal.” Likewise, social mobility—the idea that any child can grow up to be president—has
been key to the myth of what makes America great. Yet the hard truth is that inequality of
both opportunity and resulting condition has been a defining feature of America’s story.
Written by a comparative labor historian, this book combines economic and social history
with intellectual history to reveal the major trends of inequality that have been evident in
America from Revolutionary times through the present.
October 2016, 215pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
Print: 978-1-4408-3828-6 FEATURES
$46.00, £36.00, €42.00
eBook: 978-1-4408-3829-3 • Exposes the extent to which inequality exists—and has always existed—in the United
States
• Traces the deep roots of the American concern about inequality and the ways in
JAMIE L. BRONSTEIN, PhD, is which that concern has taken different forms over time, from the movement for free
professor of history at New Mexico homesteads, to the Populist movement, to the Progressives, to the career of Huey Long,
State University in Las Cruces, NM.
to Occupy Wall Street
• Blends intellectual, social, and political history to explore arguments for and against
equality of opportunity and equality of condition
• Shows the impact of such arguments at various levels of politics

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