Dismantling America, Thomas Sowell
Dismantling America, Thomas Sowell
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Dismantling America

Author: Thomas Sowell

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/10/2010


Synopsis

These wideranging essayson many individual political, economic, cultural, and legal issueshave as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained and advanced American society for more than two centuries. This decline has been more than erosion. It has, in many cases, been a deliberate dismantling of American values and institutions by people convinced that their superior wisdom and virtue must override both the traditions of the country and the will of the people. Whether these essays (originally published as syndicated newspaper columns) are individually about financial bailouts, illegal immigrants, gay marriage, national security, or the Duke University rape case, the underlying concern is about what these very different kinds of things say about the general direction of American society. This larger and longerlasting question is whether the particular issues discussed reflect a degeneration or dismantling of the America that we once knew and expected to pass on to our children and grandchildren. There are people determined that this countrys values, history, laws, traditions, and role in the world are fundamentally wrong and must be changed. Such people will not stop dismantling America unless they get stoppedand the next election may be the last time to stop them, before they take the country beyond the point of no return.

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 Tom on October 20, 2010

Reading Sowell is like watching a man smash the idols of progressive thought with a sledge hammer. Sowell gives no quarter while disclosing the negative effects of political correctness, moral relativism, and the thoughtless interference of congressman in our economy. Chris Dodd and Barney Frank may......more

Goodreads review by Steve on October 03, 2010

Great book which exposes the hidden agenda of the progressives in both political parties. This book is a great read and easy to understand. However, if you read "Economics in One Lesson" first, then read this book, you will better understand the deeper implications of what this book exposes.........more

Goodreads review by Cav on January 16, 2024

"There are Americans alive at this moment who may experience the national equivalent of “a perfect storm,” either domestically or internationally, or both. To have what is called “a perfect storm,” many dangerous forces must come together at the same time. Those dangerous forces have been building in......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on April 26, 2024

This is a series of essays by the economist Thomas Sowell, whose a perspective I wish I'd had during the early 2010s. Of particular interest are his essay about Israel's retaliation against Hamas, which shows what he turned out to be wrong about. I've also gotten a lot of mileage out of the Lincoln......more

Goodreads review by Josiah on September 05, 2022

This is Thomas Sowell's most accessible book that I've read. It is a collection of essays, but this makes it low commitment (all chapters are a tight three pages with large font), and also keeps the ideas from going too deep in data, while still getting a great flavor of Sowell's writing. Maybe the......more