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Original Language
English
ISBN
046508995X
Book Title
Vision of the Anointed : Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy
Publisher
Basic Books
Item Length
8 in
Publication Year
1996
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Thomas Sowell
Genre
Political Science
Topic
Public Policy / Social Policy, American Government / National, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Item Weight
9.3 Oz
Item Width
5.4 in
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
046508995X
ISBN-13
9780465089956
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038277549

Product Key Features

Book Title
Vision of the Anointed : Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / Social Policy, American Government / National, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Political Science
Author
Thomas Sowell
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
9.3 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.4 in

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LCCN
95-012670
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"As always, Sowell's analysis is well informed and displays a great deal of that increasingly uncommon quality, common sense ... In the largest sense, The Vision of the Anointed is a book about the perils of ideology -- those dazzling intellectual-moral constructions that seduce the unwary into ignoring the way the world works for the sake of dreams about the way it must."-- Roger Kimball , The American Spectator, "Mr. Sowell's eye is sharp, and everyone who has been up against progressive orthodoxy will find his or her own candidate for Most Annoying Liberal Kiss-Off Award."-- Suzanne Garment , Washington Times, "This is as compelling an explanation as any for the seemingly disproportionate amount of condescension and politically correct invective that emanates from the liberal side of the political spectrum toward the conservative opposition."-- Scott McConnell , Wall Street Journal
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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., 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
HN90.E4S67 1995

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    • by ricer8181
      Jul 27, 2021

      Thomas Sowell nails it again!

      The book is great because Thomas Sowell explains how the people in power keep making mistakes in judgement that has produced a cumulative effect of problems our Country now faces.

      Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: bargainbookstores

    • by snakedogwarrior
      Jul 30, 2019

      Should be required reading for high school kids

      Makes clear the divide of today and the destruction directed by the utopian left

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    • by timelesstreasuresandthings
      Jun 10, 2024

      Thought provoking book. A must read for insight of our government leaders.

      Thought provoking book. A must read for insight of our government leaders.

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    • by waffenmeister1
      Feb 07, 2022

      Great ness

      Great book should be taught at 9th grade

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    • by kma1805.k3sk4nxewm
      Jul 13, 2021

      Says it all about the”elite.”

      Excellent read by Sowell!

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