Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback Into a New Vision of Social Justice

The former nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights discusses, for the first time, how President Clinton abandoned his ambitious civil rights agenda when the political right attacked her nomination, and how the civil rights movement has subsequently suffered. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

Lani Guinier lectures widely on issues of civil rights, social justice, and democracy. Currently Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, she will join the faculty at Harvard Law School, beginning in Fall 1998. The author of The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy and coauthor of Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law Schools and Institutional Change, she now lives in Philadelphia with her husband and son.