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Maverick : A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason L. Riley (2021, Hardcover)
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- 9781541619685
- Book Title
- Maverick : a Biography of Thomas Sowell
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- Basic Books
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Political Science, History
- Topic
- Political Ideologies / Libertarianism, Public Policy / Economic Policy, United States / General
- Item Weight
- 18 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
1541619684
ISBN-13
9781541619685
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26050098873
Product Key Features
Book Title
Maverick : a Biography of Thomas Sowell
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Political Ideologies / Libertarianism, Public Policy / Economic Policy, United States / General
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.2 in
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Trade
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2021-001971
Reviews
"Thomas Sowell is among the most brilliant thinkers in the world today--deep, original, creative, fearless, intimidatingly erudite. His gripping and improbable life story can only magnify one's awe at this astonishing man's accomplishments."-- Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and the author of How the Mind Works and Enlightenment Now, "Riley, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and columnist for the Wall Street Journal , has done an admirable job distilling Sowell's 90 years, 30-odd books, and countless columns into a single volume. Maverick will delight Sowell's biggest fans and help introduce new generations to the man and his work."-- Washington Free Beacon
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23
Dewey Decimal
973.04960730092
Synopsis
A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture. His bold and unsentimental assaults on liberal orthodoxy have endeared him to many readers but have also enraged fellow intellectuals, the civil-rights establishment, and much of the mainstream media. The result has been a lack of acknowledgment of his scholarship among critics who prioritize political correctness. In the first-ever biography of Sowell, Jason L. Riley gives this iconic thinker his due and responds to the detractors. Maverick showcases Sowell's most significant writings and traces the life events that shaped his ideas and resulted in a Black orphan from the Jim Crow South becoming one of our foremost public intellectuals., Thomas Sowell has an almost godlike status amongst conservative intellectuals. "It's a scandal that economist Sowell has not been awarded the Nobel Prize," wrote a reviewer in Forbes . A profile in the Wall Street Journal described him as "one of America's great sages." His writing on politics, economics, and social issues have prompted both contempt and praise. In Maverick , Jason Riley explores the life and ideas of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most important Black intellectuals.A bright student with a tumultuous home life, Sowell was admitted to one of New York's most competitive high schools but dropped out at age 16. He left home a year later and moved into a shelter in the Bronx for homeless boys where he kept a knife under his pillow for protection. Years later, the G.I. bill enabled him to enroll in night school at Howard University and after his freshman year, he transferred to Harvard. By 1968, Sowell received his doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago, his dissertation written under the guidance of future Nobel economists Milton Friedman and George Stigler. Maverick follows Sowell from the University of Chicago to his early critiques of the Civil Rights moment. In the 60s and 70s, Sowell accepted teaching positions at Howard, Cornell, UCLA, and elsewhere -- but the campus turmoil of the era clashed with Sowell's principles and he refused to bend. He turned his attention to writing.Over the past fifty tears, Sowell has written over thirty books and countless columns and media appearances. Riley offers an introduction to Sowell's ideas, from race and inequality to economics and education. Riley considers how Sowell's own history alongside the moments and movements that shaped his thinking to offer a nuanced portrait of one of America's leading conservative intellectuals. Maverick explores the extraordinary scope and depth of arguably the most influential and trenchant Black social critics alive in America today - one whose contributions have been underacknowledged because they do not align with progressive ideas about race.
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E185.97
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