Richard Thompson Ford is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and the author of many articles on civil rights, constitutional law, and race relations, as well as the 2005 book Racial Culture: A Critique. Using sophisticated legal analysis and lively anecdotes in his new book, The Race Card, Ford posits racism as a social problem that must be objectively understood and evaluated in order to separate valid claims of bias and bigotry from bellyaching and unwarranted accusations. Winner of the Bancroft Prize for his 2004 book From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, Michael Klarman is a leading authority on the history of civil rights law in the United States. Klarman’s new book, Unfinished Business, is a succinct and enlightening discussion of the course of racial equality in America, revealing that we have made less progress than we think.