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

Sowell, Thomas

ISBN 10: 046508995X / ISBN 13: 9780465089956

Published by Basic Books, New York, 1996

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Clean and solid. ; 8vo; 305 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy
• Publisher: Basic Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 046508995X
• ISBN 13: 9780465089956
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Political Science

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of dozens of books including Charter Schools and Their Enemies, winner of the 2021 Hayek Book Prize. He is the recipient of numerous other awards, including the National Humanities Medal, presented by the President of the United States in 2003.