The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Sowell, Thomas

ISBN 10: 046508995X / ISBN 13: 9780465089956

Verlag: Basic Books, 1996

Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GICWV.046508995X.A

Inhaltsangabe:

A provocative critique of the failures of liberalism 

“Compelling.” —Wall Street Journal 

This book is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and other social pathology. In this book, “politically correct” theory is repeatedly confronted with facts—and sharp contradictions between the two are explained in terms of a whole set of self-congratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites. These elites—the anointed—often consider themselves “thinking people,” but much of what they call thinking turns out, on examination, to be rhetorical assertion, followed by evasions of mounting evidence against these assumptions.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Thomas Sowell is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. For more than half a century, his writings have appeared in both popular and scholarly publications on both sides of the Atlantic; and his books have been translated into a dozen languages. Since 1980, after a career as an economist in the government, academia, and the corporate world, he has been a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, devoting his efforts to research and writing on subjects ranging from the history and influence of intellectuals to education and social policies in countries around the world.

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Titel: The Vision of the Anointed: ...
Verlag: Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: acceptable