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Bezig met laden... The racial attitudes of American Presidents, from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Rooseveltdoor George Sinkler
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A doctoral-thesis sort of book, with an immoderate abundance of footnotes and a reasonable infusion of primary-source references, especially newspaper excerpts. Sinkler makes an earnest but shallow effort to live up to the prefatory observation that Presidential comments on racial matters were ""offered in a political context."" Like Weyl and Marina's American Statesmen on Slavery and the Negro (p. 164), the treatment of Lincoln deals with the Douglas debates, the pragmatic origins of the emancipation proclamation, the loyal opposition of Douglass; since the book in general also covers Presidential attitudes toward all racial minorities, Sinkler mentions the Sioux War of 1862. (Misquotations of key Lincoln passages will, we hope, be cleared up in the final copy.) Andrew Johnson did display ""considerable racial acuity"" by telling black soldiers in 1865 that ""slavery was by no means the end of the Negro question."" Grant, refreshing if not admirable, considered separate territories for blacks as well as Indians. Hayes, well before the Presidential election, pledged to restore Southern Bourbon rule; he and his successors had to deal with Chinese exclusion pressures, which the book renders with gross unsophistication. Cleveland's ""finest hour"" racially was his pronouncement that black regiments which fought bravely might deserve black officers. TR, the scholarly, eclectic, white supremacist, is pointedly represented by his horror of rape by blacks, which outweighed his disapproval of lynching by whites; but at the same time Roosevelt's merit principle is absurdly overemphasized as ""a great rule of righteousness"" instead of patent window dressing, Weyl and Marina did a better job of succinctly relating Presidential character and philosophy to racial views: the hard job remains of fully relating their views to national conditions.
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