San Antonio College Library

A cynical lawyer agrees to represent eight families whose children died of leukemia after two corporations leaked toxic chemicals into Woburn, Massachusetts' water supply.

A lightning rod for liberal and conservative opposition alike, affirmative action has proved one of the more divisive issues in the United States over the past five decades. The author here offers a thoughtful study of early opposition to the nation's race and gender-sensitive hiring and promotion programs in higher education and the workplace. This story begins more than fifteen years before the 1978 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Regents of the...