Maverick a biography of Thomas Sowell
(2021)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/SOWELL,T
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, 2021
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
290 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781541619685, 1541619684, 9781541619685
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Chicago-schooled -- A man alone -- Higher education, lower expectations -- 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"--