A review by shanehawk
Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality by Thomas Sowell

5.0

Cogent and succinct is my favorite Sowell. I'd argue this was written at his prime in 1984 during the twentieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He offers a rational review of the public policies that had been implemented in the name of civil rights. These criticisms still hold water today. His arguments were logically sound and presented without an air of sophistication. He's straightforward and never veers off too far to make a point using other groups as a counterexample. I thoroughly enjoyed his epilogue where he gunned down critics of his and similar thinker's work with a fully automatic and without remorse.