The Vision of the Anointed Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

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The Vision of the Anointed Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
by Thomas Sowell
from Basic Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Sowell's Foresight is Unparallelled
  Reading this book some 13 years after its original publication and in the middle of a contentious Presidential race, it seems clear that Thomas Sowell had one specific person in mind when writing this book: Barack Obama.
  Okay, not really, but it is amazing how much Obama fits the mold of the "Anointed" of the title: self-congratulatory, well-meaning, but either completely ignorant of the facts of history or completely willing to ignore them because they do not fit his agenda.
  For the people who... more info

• explaining today's partisan politics
  Sowell explains why liberals and conservatives do not work together to solve problems, such as education, in which all have a stake.

• More Finger Pointing Politcal Nonsense
  Here you have another typical one-sided (read: one-sighted) book fully of finger pointing and false accusations. This book will appease any far right-leaning American who thinks that the left are idiots and liars. This book will offend anyone who leans to the left.
  But if you are like me, and tread in the middle to nowhere category, this book will simply annoy you. Sowell talks about how the left (referred to as the "Anointed" literally three million times in the book) spins truths and statistics to... more info

• The man does his homework
  This is a brilliant book. I'm an historian (I teach history at a community college) and have studied, in depth, the philosophic background and history of the rise of modern secular ideology and its utopian vision--the people Sowell refers to as "the anointed" (and it is an accurate term). Sowell is hated by these people for two reasons: he's black and thus does not fit their stereotype of the down-trodden African-American, and his argumentation, which attacks some of the actual consequences of "the... more info

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