Black Rednecks & White Liberals: Hope, Mercy, Justice and Autonomy in the American Health Care System

This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, Jews, Germans, slavery, and education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted.

Key Features and Insights:

• A series of long essays: This book presents an in-depth look at key beliefs behind many mistaken and dangerous actions, policies, and trends.
• Historical development of ghetto culture: Eye-opening insights into a culture wrongly seen as a unique black identity—a culture cheered on toward self-destruction by white liberals who consider themselves "friends" of blacks.
• "The Real History of Slavery": An essay that offers a jolting re-examination of slavery and the narrow, distorted way it is often perceived today.
• "Are Jews Generic?": Explores the reasons for the venomous hatred of Jews and other similar groups across the world.
• Re-examination of German history: Misconceptions about German history in general, and the Nazi era in particular, are critically analyzed.
• Black education in the United States: The inspiring achievements and painful tragedies of black education are explored in depth.

This book is the capstone of decades of outstanding research and writing on racial and cultural issues by Thomas Sowell.