The vision of the anointed: self-congratulation as a basis for social policy
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New York : BasicBooks, c1995., New York : BasicBooks, [1995].
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Book
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x, 305 pages ; 25 cm.
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Louisville Adult NonFiction
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Thomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failures The Vision of the Anointed 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 those assertions.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Sowell, T. (1995). The vision of the anointed: self-congratulation as a basis for social policy. New York, BasicBooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Sowell, Thomas, 1930-. 1995. The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy. New York, BasicBooks.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Sowell, Thomas, 1930-, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy. New York, BasicBooks, 1995.
MLA Citation (style guide)Sowell, Thomas. The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy. New York, BasicBooks, 1995.
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