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The Vision of the Anointed

Paperback • 1996 • English

The Vision of the Anointed

By Thomas Sowell

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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 co...Show more

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9780465089956

Publisher

Basic Books

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

The Vision of the Anointed

Format

Paperback

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