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Saving the Neighborhood is a book that has been a rather a long time in the making. Rick Brooks and I talked about writing it together for several years after…

Saving the Neighborhood is a very fine book. It is a compact, very sinewy book, which is written with great clarity. And it has a kind of spare elegance. It…

Of the many audiences for this book, the one I will talk about today, perhaps unsurprisingly, is the audience of legal historians, and especially historians of race, civil rights, and…

My comments are both complimentary and complementary. Let’s start with the complimentary. Saving the Neighborhood is a great book. It is a must-read for anybody who studies segregation, particularly in…

My initial reaction is that the book is wonderful. It’s a jewel. It tells an important story about an important legal mechanism that ultimately had a lot of effects. It…

I want to thank Carol, whom I’ve known for years, and Rick, for writing this book. Although, I did think that the title should be Secured Transactions, I suspect you’d…