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Publisher: Encounter Books; 1 edition (April 25, 2007)
Publication Date: April 25, 2007
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“I believe it was Pascal who said that the first moral duty is to think clearly. At the very least, one can look at the evidence.’’This determination, this commitment, the drive for mental clarity and intellectual integrity, shines from every page.Sowell presents mistakes, bad decisions, impatience and frustration, yes, they are all here. However, the compassion, integrity, warmth, are so visible, so heartwarming, to make this unusual book special.“My life was economically grim and socially barren but intellectually challenging, as I studied economics in a tough program leading toward the Ph.D. Ideologically, I was a Marxist but the University of Chicago was nevertheless my first choice, despite its having the most conservative economics department of any top university. I had respect for its intellectual caliber and went there specifically to study the history of economic thought under Professor George J. Stigler, the leading authority on that subject.’’‘Ideologically, I was a Marxist’! Gives fascinating insight into Sowell (note his field is ‘intellectual history’). Why did he drift away from Marx?“After a year at the University of Chicago, including a course from Milton Friedman, I remained as much of a Marxist as I had been before arriving. However, the experience of seeing government at work from the inside and at a professional level started me to rethinking the whole notion of government as a potentially benevolent force in the economy and society.’’What did he observe working at the Labor Dept. in D.C.?“My boss, was intellectually pitiful. And this was not some senile old man in whom you see the ruins of a once sharp mind; he is still in the full vim and vigor of his late thirties. Moreover, he is not just an isolated instance. The program I was in exposed me to many (if not most) of the top people in the Department, who gave lectures with discussions afterwards. Most of them were genial mediocrities, real organization men....’’Real life, not mental ideas, changed him.This ability (rare) - to compare intellectual theory to actual human experience - highlights this touching work. Great!Lots of comment on his trials, successes, frustrations, etc., in academia . . .“Also present at my talk, and later at the gathering at Walter's apartment, was a black woman from the UCLA administration who was shocked by the rough-and-tumble style of debate among Chicago economists. I was told later that she had expressed her shock to the chairman of the UCLA economics department, saying that if the department didn't want to hire me, that was their business but that she had never seen such "hostility."The chairman's reply, I was told, was:"What are you talking about'? These guys love Tom. Of course we are going to hire him."Wow! Preconceived ideas matter. Also, student preconceptions . . .“More profoundly disturbing than the lack of analytic thinking in your presentation was an apparent unawareness of any distinction between analysis and cursory conclusions. Even after analytic points were spelled out to you, your response was "But didn't I just say the same things'?"“No. You did not say the same thing. Many people noted that apples fell off trees long before Newton, but they did not say "the same thing" as Newton.’’“It is precisely the systematic development of whys and wherefores that constitutes physics-or economics. System, structure, logic, and definition are not mere traditions, like etiquette. They are the very guts of what reasoning is all about. They are what enable you to distinguish between some words that have a good ring to the ear and an idea that makes sense.’’Several letters to and from Clarence Thomas, Walter Williams, about law and legal thought . . .“Another point which seems to me so basic that it is hard to grasp why there should be any argument is that law is virtually meaningless unless its principles are known in advance and can be relied on.’’This realization that ‘law meaningless if unreliable’ is profound.“Do judges have any sense of the amount of uncertainty and hesitation they create among decision-makers in all kinds of institutions, all across the country, when they ad-lib their decisions'? People hesitate to expel hoodlums from school, to fire incompetents from work, or to do a thousand other things that need to he done, because nobody knows how some judge will apply the "evolving standards" of a "living constitution." Even if every case decided by a judicial activist led to a better result than if the law were adhered to, the damage done throughout the society can still completely outweigh those better results in the particular cases decided.’’Other themes are role of race, and how academia’s efforts can help - or hurt. Some highlights of Sowell’s political forays. Some personal and family rewards and some failings.The character, the heart, the genuine concern for others; love of learning and teaching all drawn with a fine brush. Provides glimpses into rooms most of us never visit. Flicks on the light, just for a minute, and we see special photographs/photographer.Astounding!
The book is fascinating reading. It's always interesting to see a mind at work in something other than its Sunday clothes, to see it working spontaneously. And a mind as fertile and generous as Sowell's is more fascinating than most.The production of the book, though, is another thing. I really wish that the design had been turned over to a professional designer. Sowell says he designed it himself. It's not really a good design, and impedes the reading.I also wish it were possible to grade separately for the ebook production values. This, like a couple of other books by Sowell in Kindle form, are just awful. The type is blurry--it actually looks like you're reading a 3rd- or 4th-generation photocopy. And changing the type size does not improve anything. The type itself--the individual letters--is broken and blurred looking, like the aforementioned down-generation photocopy or an old book printed from old plates old photostatic images. The spacing of the type is also bad between words and between lines--much too much space. That's partly, I believe, the result of Sowell's design too, which does not exactly carry across from the print to the ebook. It's kind of ugly and hard to read as a Kindle book. Whatever conversion process this was put through, the publisher needs to rethink it--they need to do something else.
Thomas Sowell is one of the best writers of modern day condition that I have read. From his columns in the local paper on occasion to his books, which I have all of his publications.... I just cannot get enough of this man's wisdom.To have a full education in economics and the greater understanding of what potential we have Dr. Sowell is number one on my reading list.
If you think about what it must have taken to make this book happen......1. The book started around the 1960s and was published in 2007. So that means that it is a sampling of the best part of 50 years worth of writing. Does that mean that Sowell copies (and files) every single letter that he writes? Did he have to reread every single one of thousands of letters to find a suitable sampling for this book?2. These letters must have moved around with him in every of these many places that he lived.What does this book offer over A Personal Odyssey? It has a lot less detail but covers the same amount of time (and even a little more since the aforementioned book came out a few years before this one). Also, in A Personal Odyssey, Sowell made it a point to not go into the details of his romantic life. But in this book for some reason, he did (there wasn't that much to get into) and left behind the bitterness that he seemed to have felt for his estranged adoptive mother. He brings back the radical friend "Al" (from "Personal Odyssey") rechristened as "Hal." There are some new takes on things that we have seen before (such as mulatto elite turning into radicals claiming to represent black people around whom they didn't grow up and with whom they don't associate in normal circumstances--this topic was taken on in The Thomas Sowell Reader, but only talked about WEB DuBois). The topics are the ones that he has been covering for *decades* (racial politics/ world history/ Economics/ the economics of discrimination/ etc). The way that this differs from all the other things that I have read by him (and I have read nearly all of what he has written save a very few of his books) is that these letters are informal and are not meant to take the reader through a thought process. Somehow you just get a more personal characterization of a man when you can see the way that he addresses others in his personal correspondence-- and it is that personal characterization that makes the book worthwhile and different to all his other writings heretofore.What about the reading of this book? It's very easy (takes about 3 afternoons) and full of white space (he did us the favor of cutting out a lot of unnecessary portions of this letters) with glosses. In some ways, it reads like the Talmud with Rashi's inserts/ glosses (but clearer and more interesting).This book is really only for diehard Sowell fans (like the present reviewer), as people who are not familiar with his work won't have a foundation on which to hang a lot of what he alludes to.Overall, I'd say that it's definitely worth the secondhand price.
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