A Bancroft Prizewinning historian narrates the birth, life, and afterlife of the explosive report that permanently altered the way we talk about race in AmericaThe Washington Post - Kevin BoyleThe story of the Moynihan Report's demise has been told a number of times before. Patterson's key contribution is to show how the controversy that Moynihan triggered continued to warp public discussion of the concerns he raised long after the report itself had been filed away.