Civil Rights, Thomas Sowell
Civil Rights, Thomas Sowell
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Civil Rights
Rhetoric or Reality?

Author: Thomas Sowell

Narrator: James Bundy

Unabridged: 4 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/24/2005

Synopsis

Armed with vast statistical research, economist Thomas Sowell deftly refutes the key assumptions on which the civilrights movement as we know it today was erected, that discrimination leads to poverty and other adverse social consequences and . . . that adverse statistical disparities imply discrimination. He probes with an almost surgical precision the fundamental racial issues of affirmative action.

About Thomas Sowell

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, at Stanford University. He has been published in both academic journals and such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fortune and writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.

Reviews

Goodreads review by TJ

I marvel at the coincidence in my decision to read George Orwell's 1984 as I simultaneously read Sowell's "Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality" which he wrote in 1984. Both deal with the issue of revisionist history and with those of capable thought processes to debate whether certain things did or we......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth

Reading this book shifted the way I look at presented statistics. Having minored in Poverty and Human Capability studies in college, I felt I knew broadly the various interpretations of the Civil Rights movement, as well as the continued struggle for equality today. This book changed that. While rea......more

Goodreads review by eClaghorn

Excellent.......more

Goodreads review by Cameron

Sowell 🐐🐐🐐......more

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