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02187aam a2200469Ia 4500 001 49E6013AD10F11DF9739CBC46AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20181009010727 008 100505s2010 nyu 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2010907169 020 $a 0465022510 020 $a 9780465022519 040 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 04 $a E839.5 $b .S637 2010 082 04 $a 973.92 $2 22 100 1 $a Sowell, Thomas, $d 1930- 245 1 $a Dismantling America : $b and other controversial essays / $c by Thomas Sowell. 246 30 $a Dismantling America. 260 $a New York : $b Basic Books, $c c2010. 300 $a ix, 341 p. ; $c 25 cm. 505 0 $a Government policies --Political issues -- Economic issues -- Cultural issues -- Legal issues -- Random thoughts. 520 $a "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...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..."--Dust jacket flap. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government. 650 0 $a Political culture. 651 0 $a United States $x Economic policy. 650 0 $a Social problems. 650 0 $a Conservatism. 650 0 $a Liberalism. 941 $a 11 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611012038.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210505011330.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20201013083827.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204041458.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110023705.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20180719020442.0 952 $l ZSPC475 $d 20140909033439.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20140812074036.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20110512012129.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20110302014804.0 952 $l OJPC027 $d 20101011152215.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=49E6013AD10F11DF9739CBC46AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search