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The Vision of the Anointed|Thomas Sowell

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

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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.

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  • ISBN: 9781541646261
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Imprint: Basic Books
  • Date: July 2019
  • Seller Statement: Sold by Hachette Book Group USA

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