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The New York Times Sunday Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2011
“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
“A vigorous and long-overdue shake-up of the nation's stale discourse on race . . . sharp, tightly argued, and delightfully contentious.” —Orlando Patterson, The New York Times
“Crackles with insight and pierces the pieties of left and right . . . This history [of discrimination] only heightens the urgency of today's problems. . . . [A] passionate effort to redefine civil rights, brings a jolt of clarity.” —The Washington Post
“Ford is bracing. . . . He takes dead aim at racial opportunists, opponents of affirmative action, multiculturalists, and the myriad rights organizations trying to hitch a ride on the successes of the black civil rights movement. . . . Best of all, he argues his humane, centrist position without apology or hesitation.” —William Grimes, The Seattle Times
“Pragmatic . . . few would object to Ford's emphasis on the need for long-term solutions to persistent segregation and poverty.” —The New Yorker
"His [Richard Thompson Ford's] challenge is brave and thought-provoking..." The Times Literary Supplement
"The book is most impressive in its characterization of the ideas and politics that motivate the loosely organized global human rights movement, which pursues many causes but has not offered a unified, coherent vision of a world governed by international law."-- Foreign Affairs