LEADER 00000nim 22004335i 4500 001 MWT10025450 003 MWT 005 20151031155648.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 130915s2010 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 9781481570367|q(sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1481570366|q(sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 MWT10025450 037 10025450|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|beng|erda 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Sowell, Thomas,|d1930- 245 10 Dismantling America :|b[and other controversial essays] / |cby Thomas Sowell. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bBlackstone Audio, Incorporated :|bMade available through hoopla,|c2010. 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 07 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 audio|bs|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 Read by Robertson Dean. 520 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. This decline has been more than erosion. It has, in many cases, been a deliberate dismantling of American values and institutions by people convinced that their superior wisdom and virtue must override both the traditions of the country and the will of the people. 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. This larger and longer-lasting question is whether the particular issues discussed reflect a degeneration or dismantling of the America that we once knew and expected to pass on to our children and grandchildren. There are people determined that this country's values, history, laws, traditions, and role in the world are fundamentally wrong and must be changed. Such people will not stop dismantling America unless they get stopped-and the next election may be the last time to stop them, before they take the country beyond the point of no return. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Social values. 650 0 Regression (Civilization) 700 1 Dean, Robertson.|4nrt 710 2 hoopla digital. 914 MWT10025450