
The Affirmative Action Myth
Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed
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From Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a contrarian argument that racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans
After the Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that the use of race in college admissions was unconstitutional, many predicted that the black middle class was doomed. One byproduct of a half century of affirmative action is that it has given people the impression that blacks can’t advance without special treatment. In The Affirmative Action Myth, Jason L. Riley details the neglected history of black achievement without government intervention. Using empirical data, Riley shows how black families lifted themselves out of poverty prior to the racial preference policies of the 1960s and 1970s.
Black employment, incomes, homeownership, and educational attainment all were on the rise in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century and began to stagnate only after affirmative action became the law of the land, tainting black achievement with suspicions of unfair advantage. Countering thinkers who blame white supremacy and systemic racism for today’s racial gaps, Riley offers a more optimistic story of black success without racial favoritism.
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As former vice president of the City of David Foundation, Doron Spielman has guided numerous visitors—including donors, diplomats, professors, celebrities, and American politicians—on a journey into the City of David’s tunnels. While often holding vastly different political views, these visitors agree on one thing: the story of the City of David must be told.
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Eye Opening
- De Loves to Bake en 06-07-25
De: Doron Spielman
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The Nazi Mind
- Twelve Warnings from History
- De: Laurence Rees
- Narrado por: John Sackville
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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How could the SS have committed the crimes they did? How were the killers who shot Jews at close quarters able to perpetrate this horror? Why did commandants of concentration and death camps willingly—often enthusiastically—oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews? In The Nazi Mind, bestselling historian Laurence Rees seeks answers to some of the most perplexing questions surrounding the Second World War and the Holocaust.
De: Laurence Rees
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Tides of Fortune
- The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries
- De: Zack Cooper
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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How will the United States and China evolve militarily in the years ahead? Many experts believe the answer to this question is largely unknowable. But Zack Cooper argues that the American and Chinese militaries are following a well-trodden path. For centuries, the world's most powerful militaries have adhered to a remarkably consistent pattern of behavior, determined largely by their leaders' perceptions of relative power shifts. By uncovering these trends, this book places the evolving military competition between the United States and China in historical context.
De: Zack Cooper
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Affirmative Action Around the World
- An Empirical Study
- De: Thomas Sowell
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
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In this important book, an eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action, investigating its actual consequences in the United States and in other countries where it has been in effect. Evaluating his empirical data, Thomas Sowell concludes that race preference programs worldwide have not met expectations and have often produced the opposite of what was originally intended.
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Thomas Sowell hits another one out of the park!
- De Kat en 05-21-25
De: Thomas Sowell
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Melting Point
- Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land
- De: Rachel Cockerell
- Narrado por: Henry Goodman, Rachel Cockerell
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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In a highly inventive style, Cockerell captures history as it unfolds, weaving together letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles, and interviews into a vivid account. Melting Point follows Zangwill and the Jochelmann family through two world wars, to London, New York, and Jerusalem—as their lives intertwine with some of the most memorable figures of the twentieth century, and each chooses whether to cling to their history or melt into their new surroundings. It is a story that asks what it means to belong, and what can be salvaged from the past.
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Tasting history unfolding....
- De BUYERAmazon en 06-03-25
De: Rachel Cockerell
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Strangers in the Land
- Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
- De: Michael Luo
- Narrado por: Eric Yang
- Duración: 17 h y 20 m
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In 1889, while upholding Chinese exclusion, Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field characterized them as “strangers in the land.” Only in 1965 did America’s gates swing open to people like Luo’s parents, immigrants from Taiwan. Today there are more than twenty-two million people of Asian descent in the United States and yet the “stranger” label, Luo writes, remains. Drawing on archives from across the country and written with a New Yorker writer’s style and sweep, Strangers in the Land is revelatory and unforgettable, an essential American story.
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Important to understand the past so we don’t repeat its mistakes
- De A G en 05-27-25
De: Michael Luo
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The Israel Decree
- The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Controversial Strip of Land
- De: Amir Tsarfati
- Narrado por: Amir Tsarfati
- Duración: 3 h y 58 m
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The Israel Decree meticulously traces the historical, political, legal, and scriptural foundations of Israel's God-promised right to the land. Writing with clarity and commitment to biblical truth, bestselling author and native Israeli Amir Tsarfati helps you: understand how today’s Israel is a continuation of the ancient biblical nation, fulfilling a divine promise made millennia ago; live with greater expectancy and hope in light of what Bible prophecy says about the rapture and tribulation; and be encouraged by God’s wonderful character as you see it on display.
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Another wonderful book by Amir!
- De Sara Laigaard en 05-06-25
De: Amir Tsarfati
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Tequila Wars
- Jose Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico
- De: Ted Genoways
- Narrado por: Andrew Joseph Perez
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, José Cuervo inherited his family's humble distillery, La Rojeña, in the Tequila Valley. Within a decade, it would become Mexico's leading producer of tequila. But when the Mexican Revolution erupted, a charge of treason and a death threat against him by Pancho Villa forced Cuervo to flee. In Tequila Wars, award-winning author Ted Genoways restores Cuervo to his place as a key player in Mexico's formative period. Before the revolution, Cuervo's acclaim spread worldwide, and once war broke out, Cuervo remained an impresario, kingmaker, and cultural force.
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The writing was heavy on descriptions but light on historical content.
- De George Q. Bissonnette en 06-06-25
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Scorched Earth
- A Global History of World War II
- De: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 23 h y 19 m
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In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the triumph of an American-led democratic order. In Scorched Earth, historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin dispatches the myth of World War II as a good war. Instead, he depicts the conflict as it truly was: a massive battle beset by vicious racial atrocities, fought between rival empires across huge stretches of Asia and Europe.
I was concerned that the title of the book might suggest a foregone conclusion—written by someone seeking facts to justify their beliefs. But it actually uses research from both sides of the argument, as well as from a neutral perspective.
Although it is very much a book designed to sell units rather than serve as a serious academic study, it still contains a lot of useful information. That said, it digresses too often into political talking points that don’t directly relate to the subject matter.
On the whole, it is a good read, and contains a lot of useful information.
The narration is especially good, because Riley is one of the few people who can actually pronounce Du Bois (not Dew Boys).
Well-researched and reasoned arguments against AA, if a bit one-sided
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