Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration (Paperback)

"Jacoby's research is prodigious and her narrative compelling… With the publication of Someone Else's House, this new racial realism receives its best-written and most emotionally powerful treatment." Alan Wolfe, The New York Times Book Review (front cover), June 21, 1998

"In her splendid book, Tamar Jacoby has written a detailed and troubling account of how (African-American) discontent has guided politics in New York City, Detroit, and Atlanta." James Q. Wilson, The New Republic, May 11, 1998

"This book is a must read for any student of race relations… I have a mind to run and buy copies for President Clinton and every member of his Advisory Panel on Race." Ward Connerly, The Washington Times, June 21, 1998

"What ever happened to integration, asks Tamar Jacoby, in this remarkable book, arguably the most important study of race relations in America since Gunnar Myrdal's "An American Dilemma." The Economist, September 12th- 18th, 1998

"A resolute spirit permeates this passionate volume. . . . Jacoby's reportorial skills dazzle." Peter Skerry, Washington Post July 12, 1998

"Jacoby is very effective at showing how race-conscious policies, promoted by government and the black civil rights establishment alike, have done more to keep blacks and whites apart in America's cities than to bring them together." Daniel Casse, Commentary, July 1998

"Her argument would be abstract and academic without the reporting that gives this admirable book its muscle and sinew." Michael Skube, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, May 24, 1998

"Someone Else's House is perhaps the finest historical account of race relations in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s." John J. Miller, Amazon.com

"Those who doubt the wisdom of this direction (the dream of integration) should heed Ms. Jacoby's tale of nightmares wrought by racial hatred." Julia Vitullo-Martin, The Wall Street Journal, May 28, 1998

"Someone Else's House is the best documentation yet of how - after the '60s - a burgeoning black power came into sharp conflict with the very racial idealism that had opened the way for it to emerge. With much journalistic empathy and a novelistic feel for detail, Jacoby takes us through the devolution of the integrationist dream into the aggressive, race-based, urban politics of New York, Detroit, Atlanta during the '70s, '80s, and '90s. This book is not only a penetrating work of social criticism; it is also the finest history of this period yet written." Shelby Steele, author of The Content of our Character: A New Vision of Race in America

"Her accounting of and insight into the experiences of three cities - New York, Detroit, and Atlanta - reveal lessons that can help all of us understand where we have been, where we are, and where we need to go." Senator Bill Bradley

". . . somewhere along the way America, black and white, abandoned its commitment. With brilliant insight and anguished honesty, Jacoby narrates and analyzes this tragic failure of nerve." John Patrick Diggins, Distinguished Professor of History, Graduate Center of History, CUNY

"A masterful blend of uncompromising candor and fairness in pursuit of true integration." Jim Sleeper, author of Liberal Racism

"Tamar Jacoby is an excellent historian and journalist, and her Someone Else's House is a book of great value. Everyone will profit from reading it." Paul Berman, author of A Tale of Two Utopias

"With the best of intentions, the drive for racial integration - and thus for true racial equality - has been led badly astray, Tamar Jacoby argues in this wonderful book." Abigail Thernstrom, co-author of America in Black and White --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.