· Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades — as distinguished from the hopes with which they began or the rhetoric with which they continue, Who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights revolution have stood the test of time and which have proven to be mistaken or even catastrophic to those who Brand: HarperCollins Publishers. Although a slim volume, Sowell's Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? is one of the most important books on the subject ever written. One by one, the standard platitudes about discrimination and poverty fall before Sowell's relentless statistical assault. Discrimination causes poverty? How about the Chinese minority in Southeast Asia?Cited by: Thomas Sowell in Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality explains some statistics that refute many of those claims. He lays out his argument pretty well and makes sense most of the time. The epilogue is quite whiny complaining about people misrepresenting his work and sometimes I felt like he was trying to use as many big words as he could to show how awesome and smart he www.doorway.ru by:
CIVIL RIGHTS: RHETORIC OR REALITY? By Thomas Sowell.' New York: William Morrow Co. Pp. $ James D. Anderson2 The publication of this book provides an opportunity to as sess Sowell's neoconservative ideas on the economics of race and sex. Sowell offers alternative explanations of the historical and. Stories. Book Review: Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? By Thomas Sowell. Tuesday, January 1, David M. Brown. (William Morrow Co., Inc., Madison Avenue, New York, NY ), pages • $ "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!" wrote Sir Walter Scott. Thomas Sowell recalls this. CIVIL RIGHTS: RHETORIC OR REALITY?, by Thomas Sowell. Published on J by Benjamin J. Montoya. HarperCollins, | pages.
Book Review: Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? By Thomas Sowell. Tuesday, January 1, David M. Brown. (William Morrow Co., Inc., Madison Avenue, New York, NY ), pages • $ “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!” wrote Sir Walter Scott. CIVIL RIGHTS: RHETORIC OR REALITY? By Thomas Sowell.' New York: William Morrow Co. Pp. $ James D. Anderson2 The publication of this book provides an opportunity to as sess Sowell's neoconservative ideas on the economics of race and sex. Sowell offers alternative explanations of the historical and. A prime example is his book, "Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality." In this monument to common sense, Sowell examines the disastrous turn in the American civil rights movement from equality of opportunity to equality of results. Equality of opportunity is represented by the landmark lawsuit, Brown v.
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