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Dismantling America

By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
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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 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 override 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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“For anyone looking for a straightforward and honest discussion of the origins of our current crisis, informed by a deep understanding of both economics and politics.” ( Washington Times)

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Some Wise Insights

While I don’t agree with everything Mr Sowell has to say, he nevertheless puts his opinions and arguments across succinctly and without ambiguity.

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Brilliantly Insightful and thoughtful.

From now on Thomas Sowell should be on every school curriculum and on every college course in both the US and Great Britain. This excellent collection of essays and journalism distills its author's views perfectly and illustrates conservative arguments coherently and rationally. This book is also an excellent primer for further reading by this great thinker, who must be considered one of our greatest public intellectuals. Certainly politicians, especially leftists, should give plenty of thought to Sowell's positions on a wide range of subjects. I have never read Sowell before this and I shall now be investing in his works. You should too.

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Chilling reflection

I’ve listened to other books by Thomas Sowell. This one is much clearer in how he feels rather than the data in his other books. It is however a very interesting listen, logically debunking a great deal of the holy trinity.

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excellent book.

what a wise man, he explains the troubles that have dominated our society, with clarity.

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Always great

Never read a book or articles by Thomas that did not make me think or reflect . The world requires more wisdom such as he possesses

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Your reality is distorted

Sowell is excellent at explaining in Lehman terms how politics is merely Santa Claus for adults. Excellent stuff and a pleasure to listen to common sense logical explanations.

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Poorly argued and flawed reasoning

I stopped at chapter 4. I found the arguments unconvincing and couched in inflammatory terms. More of a rant against the politics of the Democrats than a reasoned response or critique

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very right wing

too right wing a view of the USA and the world for my listening. didn't finish it

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