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  • ISBN:
    0465022510
  • ISBN-13:
    9780465022519
  • PUB. DATE:
    August 2010
  • PUBLISHER:
    Basic Books

Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays by Thomas Sowell

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Eye openingby Anonymous

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This is another great book by this common sense author/economist. His clear, no nonsence look at our government and how they have, as the title states, dismantled this country both ecomomically and judiciously. Dr. Sowel does not mix words nor does he fix the blame on anyone political party or President, but rather shows clearly how polititians have systematically perverted the Constitution and dooped...

Brilliant Sowell Survey Courseby statomattic

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The first book I read by Sowell was "Intellectuals and Society," and I wrote in my review that reading it was as enlightening as taking the most interesting course you ever took in college, taught by a rogue conservative who somehow wound up on the faculty. Well if "Intellectuals and Society" was a specialized, upper-level course, "Dismantling America" could be considered...

Get Educatedby kelson

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You can't go wrong with Mr. Sowell.


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Dismantling America

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  • Pub. Date: August 2010
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Sales Rank: 132,788

Synopsis

These wide-ranging essays—on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues—have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries. This decline has been more than an erosion. It has, in many cases, been a deliberate dismantling of American values and institutions by people convinced that their superior wisdom and virtue must over-ride both the traditions of the country and the will of the people.

Whether these essays (originally published as syndicated newspaper columns) are individually about financial bailouts, illegal immigrants, gay marriage, national security, or the Duke University rape case, the underlying concern is about what these very different kinds of things say about the general direction of American society.

This larger and longer-lasting question is whether the particular issues discussed reflect a degeneration or dismantling of the America that we once knew and expected to pass on to our children and grandchildren. There are people determined that this country's values, history, laws, traditions and role in the world are fundamentally wrong and must be changed. Such people will not stop dismantling America unless they get stopped—and the next election may be the last time to stop them, before they take the country beyond the point of no return.

 

Biography

Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has published in both academic journals in such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine and Fortune, and writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.