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The Vision of the Annointed : Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
Overview
One of America's pre-eminent economists offers a provocative critique of the failures of liberalism In The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas 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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780465089956
- ISBN-10: 046508995X
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publish Date: June 1996
- Dimensions: 8.05 x 5.3 x 0.86 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.59 pounds
- Page Count: 320
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