Mind-changing Books (Thomas Sowell)

Creators Syndicate ^ | April 7, 2009 | Thomas Sowell

[Diana in Wisconsin]

In before the ping! :)

[jazusamo]

*PING*
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[jazusamo]

Hi, Di! :-)

[VR-21]

Thomas Sowells Visions of The Annointed is one of the influential books in my life. I've read others and all are worthwhile, but "Visions" remains my favorite.

It's staggers me to realize how desperately our country needs people like him these days.

[supremedoctrine]

Experince, indeed, is what changes one’s mind, rather than “books”. One thing I can’t help telling Libs I finally have to find myself arguing with is “What I have is experience. What Liberals have is “attitudes towards experience”. In the end, there’s no experience there for Libs; they’re always and only too happy to defer to someone else’s experience ( like murderers, rapists, unwed mothers,and all those people Lib candidates tell you they’ve met along the campaign trial, whose stories have
turned their heads around) as if it’s “truer” than their own-—and it is, because they never claim their own experience at all, and are in fact resentful of it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I just reserved ‘Economic Facts and Fallacies’ from my library, and since I live in a VERY liberal county, there was no waiting, LOL!

‘The Vision of the Anointed’ is next, after EF&F. :)

[jazusamo]

At least there’s one advantage to living amongst libs. :-)

I have “The Vision of the Annointed” along with quite a few others on my “must read” list, I just have a hard time getting much reading done.

[Billthedrill]

Sowell BTT. Yes, it was The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that sent me on my way too. It is simply an astonishing achievement. So was Russell's A History of Western Philosophy. One of Sowell's books helped a good deal as well: Knowledge and Decisions.

[John Valentine]

I have to recommend Sowell’s “Knowledge and Decisions”. This book systematically and conclusively shows how central planning and other forms of government interference in economic processes must ALWAYS fail.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll go add that one to my reserve list as well.

It’s fun to watch my Liberal Librarians sneer when they see what I’m checking out, LOL! It’s almost as much fun as rearranging the conservative author books at Barnes and Noble, but I can’t have fun EVERY day. :)

[MHGinTN]

I hope to someday pass a library of books to my granddaughter for her ‘further’ education. Thomas Sowell’s writings will be in that chosen collection.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[Billthedrill]

LOL! Sixty seconds. :-p

[TiberiusClaudius]

Dude (or dude-ess, as the case may be), I’ve been following your Thomas Sowell pings for years now, and I just had a thought. I don’t have any idea how I am supposed to pronounce your name...

[jazusamo]

splained it in FRmail :)

[truthguy]

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[Rocky]

I read Sowell’s autobiography but somehow missed the fact that he was a communist as a young man.

[RhoTheta]

Reference bump

[jazusamo]

I wasn’t aware of that either. He was 21 when he was drafted and went into the Marines. Following that were his college years so he must be referring to them. He went to Howard, Harvard, Columbia and U of Chicago.