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Is Reality Optional?

Thomas 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.

Audiobook

  • Published: 27/09/2022

  • Language: English

  • Publisher: Tantor Audio

  • ISBN: 9781666197600


Author:

  • Thomas Sowell

Narrator:

  • Leon Nixon

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 7 h 24 min

Language:

English


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    Thomas Sowell is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has been a professor of economics at leading American colleges and universities and has lectured in Singapore, Israel, Switzerland, and Germany, as well as across the United States.

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