Dismantling America: and other controversial essays Review
Thomas Sowell's Dismantling America, while deceptive in its simplicity, contains profound and timeless lessons for all of us. Mr. Sowell, through multiple examples, demonstrates sophisticated economic and moral concepts frequently distorted by the media and politicians, and draws the reader back to time tested common sense ideas taken for granted by earlier generations. We would do well to relearn these philosophical and economic lessons, if we are to survive as the nation we once were.
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Dismantling America: and other controversial essays Overview
These wide-ranging essays—on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues—have 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 an 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 over-ride 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 longer-lasting 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 country's 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 stopped—and the next election may be the last time to stop them, before they take the country beyond the point of no return.
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Customer Reviews
Great Book - Mike Russell - Germany
My first Thomas Sowell book. I found it an easy read and thought provoking. Readers should be aware this is a compilation of previously written articles so there are some repeated opinions, phases and statements. I recommend this book to anyone who is new to politics or maybe trying to make sense out of the current political and economic situation.
Think About It - jaco7 -
Dr. Sowell is one of the few lucid minds left in america. This collection of essays will enlighten any mind that is not locked in liberalism.
Vintage Sowell - joan -
This is vintage Sowell. Crisp clear writing. Vivid images. Powerful arguments. The only complaint I can make is that these essays are more pessimistic than Sowell's earlier essays and thus depressing but he clearly lays out his reasons for pessimism. This is a must read.
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