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.
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Publisher : Basic Books; 1st edition (28 June 1996)
Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 046508995X
ISBN-13 : 978-0465089956
Dimensions : 13.49 x 2.03 x 20.32 cm
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