BACKFIRE: A Reporter's Look at Affirmative Action.
by Zelnick, Robert
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0895264552
- ISBN 13
- 9780895264558
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Washington, D.C.:: Regnery Publishing,, (1996). Hardcover -. Fine in very good dust jacket (creasing to bottom edge of back cover of dj) . 2nd printing. From the Back Cover: "Zelnick looks past the good intentions to how affirmative action really works in such areas as voting rights, employment, minority set-asides, mortgage and insurance regulation, and education. Buttressing his case with the latest research data and scores of real-life examples, Zelnick shows overwhelmingly that affirmative action: favors the less qualified over the more qualified; endangers public safety in such areas as crime and fire prevention, and even medical care . . .brings few benefits to those most in need of help, and benefits mostly those who don't need it; distracts from - and even exacerbates the real causes of misery among inner city blacks." One reviewer commented: "If America is moving toward a consensus that affirmative action has outlived its usefulness, then this attack underscores the resentment driving that movement." Notes, index. xiii, 415 pp.
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- Title
- BACKFIRE: A Reporter's Look at Affirmative Action.
- Author
- Zelnick, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in very good dust jacket (creasing to bottom edge of back cover of dj)
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0895264552
- ISBN 13
- 9780895264558
- Publisher
- Regnery Publishing,
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C.:
- Date Published
- (1996)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Race relations and racism;
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