Daniel S. Lucks holds a PhD in American history from the University of California, Berkeley and is the author of Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. He is a graduate of the University of California Hastings College of the Law and lives in Los Angeles.

Introduction
PART I: UP FROM RACIAL LIBERALISM
CHAPTER 1
Early Reagan: The Unmaking of a Racial Liberal
CHAPTER 2
On the Wrong Side of History: States' Rights vs. Human Rights
PART II: RIDING THE WAVE OF THE WHITE BACKLASH (1966-1980)
CHAPTER 3
Reagan's First Campaign: Riots, the Rumford Act, and Backlash Politics
CHAPTER 4
Reagan's 1968 Race for the Presidency: "Law and Order" and the Southern Strategy
CHAPTER 5
The Perfect Targets: Black Radicals and Welfare Moochers
CHAPTER 6
Reagan's Near Miss in 1976: Welfare Queens, Jesse Helms, and George Wallace Voters
CHAPTER 7
Let's Make America Great Again: Reagan's 1980 Triumph
PART III: PRESIDENT REAGAN: ROLLING BACK THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION (1981-1989)
CHAPTER 8
Launching a Counterrevolution in Civil Rights
CHAPTER 9
Controlling the Civil Rights Commission and Igniting Old Conservative Battles
CHAPTER 10
South Africa: Reagan's Embrace of the Apartheid Government and the Fight for Sanctions
CHAPTER 11
The Battle for the Judiciary
CHAPTER 12
The War on Drugs, Willie Horton, and the Criminalization of Blackness
CONCLUSION
Reagan's Racial Legacy and the Road to Trump
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index