The Vision Of The Anointed: Self-congratulation As A Basis For Social Policy

Sowell, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0465089941 / ISBN 13: 9780465089949

Edité par Basic Books, 1995

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(5th printing) Larger, sturdy book, brown cloth spine, black boards, gilt lettering bright and black lettering very fine on spine, a light smudge at spine top, a remainder line and red dot at pages' bottom edge, 305 pages. On half-title page in black ink "To Bill with love, Thomas Sowell." (Exploring association between Sowell and William F. Buckley Jr.) DJ beneath mylar, black background with a dark wreath design in the gilt rounded lines at center front, silver and black spine, gold and black back. DJ Very Good, Book Good.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Vision Of The Anointed: Self-congratulation As A Basis For Social Policy
• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0465089941
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780465089949
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 5th or later Edition
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose defects have led to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies. In this book, he describes how elites—the anointed—have replaced facts and rational thinking with rhetorical assertions, thereby altering the course of our social policy.