A Personal Odyssey

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2001

This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place.

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ISBN-13: 9780684864655
ISBN-10: 0684864657
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Free Press

Notă biografică

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and the author of The Quest for Cosmic Justice, The Vision of the Anointed, Ethnic America, and several other books. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Forbes, and Fortune, and are syndicated in 150 newspapers. He lives in Stanford, California.

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This is the gritty story of one man's life-long education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. It is also the story of the dramatically changing times in which this personal odyssey took place.

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Contents

Preface

1. Carolina in the Morning

2. In Old New York

3. A Four-Leaf Clover

4. Halls of Montezuma

5. Halls of Ivy

6. Drifting Along

7. Cayuga's Waters

8. Movin' On

9. California, Here I Come

10. Arrivederci

11. September Song

12. Memories

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