| The Vision of the Annointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy Contributor(s): Sowell, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 046508995X ISBN-13: 9780465089956 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1996 Annotation: The nationally bestselling author of Race and Culture and Inside America presents a devastating examination of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past 30 years, whose defects have led to crises on education, crime, and family dynamics, "An important and incisive book".--New York Times Book Review. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism - Social Science | Sociology - Social Theory |
| Dewey: 305.520 |
| LCCN: 95012670 |
| Lexile Measure: 1710 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.3" W x 8.05" (0.59 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Thomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failures The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mind-set 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 those assertions. |