This book is a must read for anyone who votes and cares about good policymaking--Sowell explodes the myths about preferential polices toward blacks and women in America. With regard to his feeling of the necessity about the distortions surrounding civil rights, Sowell states in the Preface, ". . . the polarization of the races, the stagnation and retrogression of the truly disadvantaged, and the embittered atmosphere surrounding the evolution of 'civil rights,' in the courts especially, leave no real alternative to an open and frank reconsideration of what has been done, and is being done, in the name of those two works."
A sign of the true brilliance of a scholar, in my opinion, is that he can write about very big issues in common sense ways that the most highly educated will find compelling and the caring citizen will be better informed.
I have the deepest admiration for Thomas Sowell, and I regret that I was not aware of him and his writings at an earlier age when I was voting from my misled and misinformed heart and mind.
A sign of the true brilliance of a scholar, in my opinion, is that he can write about very big issues in common sense ways that the most highly educated will find compelling and the caring citizen will be better informed.
I have the deepest admiration for Thomas Sowell, and I regret that I was not aware of him and his writings at an earlier age when I was voting from my misled and misinformed heart and mind.
