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Maverick - A Biography of Thomas Sowell (Hardcover)
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Maverick - A Biography of Thomas Sowell (Hardcover)
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Thomas Sowell has an almost godlike status amongst conservative
intellectuals. "It's a scandal that economist Sowell has not been
awarded the Nobel Prize," wrote a reviewer in Forbes. A profile in
the Wall Street Journal described him as "one of America's great
sages." His writing on politics, economics, and social issues have
prompted both contempt and praise. In Maverick, Jason Riley
explores the life and ideas of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most
important Black intellectuals. A bright student with a tumultuous
home life, Sowell was admitted to one of New York's most
competitive high schools but dropped out at age 16. He left home a
year later and moved into a shelter in the Bronx for homeless boys
where he kept a knife under his pillow for protection. Years later,
the G.I. bill enabled him to enroll in night school at Howard
University and after his freshman year, he transferred to Harvard.
By 1968, Sowell received his doctorate in economics from the
University of Chicago, his dissertation written under the guidance
of future Nobel economists Milton Friedman and George Stigler.
Maverick follows Sowell from the University of Chicago to his early
critiques of the Civil Rights moment. In the 60s and 70s, Sowell
accepted teaching positions at Howard, Cornell, UCLA, and elsewhere
-- but the campus turmoil of the era clashed with Sowell's
principles and he refused to bend. He turned his attention to
writing. Over the past fifty tears, Sowell has written over thirty
books and countless columns and media appearances. Riley offers an
introduction to Sowell's ideas, from race and inequality to
economics and education. Riley considers how Sowell's own history
alongside the moments and movements that shaped his thinking to
offer a nuanced portrait of one of America's leading conservative
intellectuals. Maverick explores the extraordinary scope and depth
of arguably the most influential and trenchant Black social critics
alive in America today - one whose contributions have been
underacknowledged because they do not align with progressive ideas
about race.
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