The Vision Of The Annointed: Self-congratulation As A Basis For Social Policy

ISBN-13:	9780465089956
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	06/28/1996
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	71,048
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1710L (what's this?)

One of America’s pre-eminent economists offers a provocative critique of the failures of liberalism In The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas 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.