Heather Macdonald

The Burden of Bad Ideas

How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the best of our urban journalists considers the upside-down world of public policy and the entrenchment of foolish ideas in closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power. "Insightful and articulate...entertaining and provocative."-Richard Lamm, Wall Street Journal. "Spirited, stimulating, eloquent essays...vivid and devastating....The Burden of Bad Ideas is social, cultural, and political criticism of the first order."-Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ivan R. Dee
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9781566633963
• ISBN-10: 1566633966
• Artikelnr.: 22270598

Autorenporträt

By Heather MacDonald

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction vii Part 2 The Billions of Dollars That Made Things
Worse 3 Part 3 Behind the Hundred Neediest Cases 25 Part 4 Public Health
Quackery 43 Part 5 Law School Humbug 61 Part 6 Why Johnny's Teacher Can't
Teach 82 Part 7 An F for Hip-Hop 101 103 Part 8 Revisionist Lust: The
Smithsonian Today 117 Part 9 Homeless Advocates in Outer Space 144 Part 10
Compassion Gone Mad 155 Part 11 Welfare's Next Vietnam 173 Part 12 Foster
Care's Underworld 194 Part 13 Diallo Truth, Diallo Falsehood 209 Part 14
Index 235