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Vision of the Anointed : Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Book TitleVision of the Anointed : Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPublic Policy / Social Policy, American Government / National, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publication Year1996
GenrePolitical Science
AuthorThomas Sowell
FormatTrade Paperback

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Reviews"As always, Sowell's analysis is well informed and displays a great deal of that increasingly uncommon quality, common sense ... In the largest sense, The Vision of the Anointed is a book about the perils of ideology -- those dazzling intellectual-moral constructions that seduce the unwary into ignoring the way the world works for the sake of dreams about the way it must."-- Roger Kimball , The American Spectator, "Mr. Sowell's eye is sharp, and everyone who has been up against progressive orthodoxy will find his or her own candidate for Most Annoying Liberal Kiss-Off Award."-- Suzanne Garment , Washington Times, "This is as compelling an explanation as any for the seemingly disproportionate amount of condescension and politically correct invective that emanates from the liberal side of the political spectrum toward the conservative opposition."-- Scott McConnell , Wall Street Journal
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SynopsisSowell 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., Thomas Sowell's provocative critique of liberalism's failures The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and other social pathology. In this book, "politically correct" theory is repeatedly confronted with facts -- and sharp contradictions between the two are explained in terms of a whole set of self-congratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites. These elites -- the anointed -- often consider themselves "thinking people," but much of what they call thinking turns out, on examination, to be rhetorical assertion, followed by evasions of mounting evidence against those assertions., 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.
LC Classification NumberHN90.E4S67 1995

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    27 Jul, 2021

    Thomas Sowell nails it again!

    The book is great because Thomas Sowell explains how the people in power keep making mistakes in judgement that has produced a cumulative effect of problems our Country now faces.

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  • by snakedogwarrior
    30 Jul, 2019

    Should be required reading for high school kids

    Makes clear the divide of today and the destruction directed by the utopian left

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    Thought provoking book. A must read for insight of our government leaders.

    Thought provoking book. A must read for insight of our government leaders.

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    08 Feb, 2022

    Great ness

    Great book should be taught at 9th grade

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    13 Jul, 2021

    Says it all about the”elite.”

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