This is a remarkable and valuable book. Donald Nieman has maintained the high quality of the original volume, while bringing his account into the Age of Trump. The original edition was published after a period of civil rights retrenchment. This volume follows the elections of our first African-American president, and our first modern racist president. Nieman sets this double-whammy into a clear historical context, and helps us to understand why getting race right is
essential to constitutional order in the United States.
Donald G. Nieman is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author or editor of six books, including the first edition of Promises to Keep (Oxford).