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Dismantling America: and other controversial essays
Thomas Sowell
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Description for Dismantling America: and other controversial essays
Hardcover. A broad-based and withering critique of America's current trajectory. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JPFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 582.
These wide-ranging essays- on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues- have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries. This decline has been more than an erosion. It has, in many cases, been a deliberate dismantling of American values and institutions by people convinced that their superior wisdom and virtue must over-ride both the traditions of the country and the will of the people. Whether these essays (originally published as syndicated newspaper columns) are individually about financial bailouts, illegal immigrants, gay ... Read more
These wide-ranging essays- on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues- have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries. This decline has been more than an erosion. It has, in many cases, been a deliberate dismantling of American values and institutions by people convinced that their superior wisdom and virtue must over-ride both the traditions of the country and the will of the people. Whether these essays (originally published as syndicated newspaper columns) are individually about financial bailouts, illegal immigrants, gay ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465022519
SKU
V9780465022519
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About Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has published in both academic journals in such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine and Fortune, and writes a syndicated ... Read more
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