Second only to the man himself, it was Herblock, the recently deceased Washington Post political cartoonist, who fixed our cultural impression of Richard M. Nixon. The hollow cheeks, the cleft of black hair, the menacing jowls set like a bat's wings. Could such a man have given a hoot about civil rights?
The answer is yes. A timid, pragmatic yes, but a yes nonetheless. Our cultural impression is so much a fixed caricature that this revelation in itself makes Dean Kotlowski's encyclopedic and exhaustively researched study of Nixon's civil rights record a rewarding read.
FROM A Review of Dean Kotlowski's "Nixon's Civil Rights"
... (By MATTHEW HERRINGTON)
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