Rights Gone Wrong How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality

Ford presents a new vision of the successes and failures of civil rights. He sees them as being hijacked by opportunists, extremists, and special-interest groups, which has drawn attention away from the real social injustices.

Richard Thompson Ford is the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He is a regular contributor to Slate and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

"Rights Gone Wrong is sharp and surprising, and casts the discrimination debate in a clarifying new light."---Jeffrey Rosen, The New York Times Book Review

"Ford has written a highly accessible narrative that underscores the need for Americans to roll up their sleeves and do the heavy lifting necessary to address persistent economic and racial inequality….With this book, Ford has in effect contributed a new placard to the American protest march."---America magazine

"Cogent…A rationalist analysis of the efficacy of a multitude of antidiscrimination laws…All sides can learn much from Ford’s thinking."---Publishers Weekly

"Persuasive…This subject tends to produce polemical writing on both sides, but Ford is consistently measured and thought-provoking. Recommended to anyone interested in public affairs."---Library Journal