Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes.
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Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780817992620 |
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| Publisher: | Hoover Institution Press |
| Publication date: | 11/28/1993 |
| Series: | Publication Series , #41 |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Sales rank: | 167,362 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d) |
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