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Maverick : a biography of Thomas Sowell / Jason L. Riley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 290 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781541619685
  • 1541619684
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Chicago-schooled -- A man alone -- Higher education, lower education -- Sowell's reconsiderations -- Sowell's knowledge -- Sowell's visions -- Civil rights and wrongs -- Culture matters -- Sowell man.
Summary: "In Maverick, Jason Riley explores the life and ideas of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential and trenchant Black social critics and conservative intellectuals alive today. Riley offers an introduction to Sowell's ideas, from race and inequality to politics, economics, and education. Riley considers Sowell's own history alongside the moments and movements that shaped his thinking"-- Provided by publisher
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography SOWELL, T. R573 Available 33111010522726
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chicago-schooled -- A man alone -- Higher education, lower education -- Sowell's reconsiderations -- Sowell's knowledge -- Sowell's visions -- Civil rights and wrongs -- Culture matters -- Sowell man.

"In Maverick, Jason Riley explores the life and ideas of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential and trenchant Black social critics and conservative intellectuals alive today. Riley offers an introduction to Sowell's ideas, from race and inequality to politics, economics, and education. Riley considers Sowell's own history alongside the moments and movements that shaped his thinking"-- Provided by publisher

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