Late admissions : confessions of a Black conservative / Glenn C. Loury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loury, Glenn C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loury, Glenn C.

African American conservatives--Biography.

African American conservatives.

African American economists--Biography.

African American economists.

African American intellectuals--Biography.

African American intellectuals.

African American college teachers--Biography.

African American college teachers.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 428 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Confessions of a Black conservative

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2024]

Summary:

"A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race, and belief. Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time: he's often radically opposed to the political mainstream, and delights in upending what's expected of a Black public figure. But more so than the arguments themselves--on affirmative action, institutional racism, Trumpism--his public life has been characterized by fearlessness and a willingness to recalibrate strongly held and forcefully argued beliefs. Loury grew up on the south side of Chicago, earned a PhD in MIT's economics program, and became the first Black tenured professor of economics at Harvard at the age of thirty-three. He has been, at turns, a young father, a drug addict, an adulterer, a psychiatric patient, a born-again Christian, a lapsed born-again Christian, a Black Reaganite who has swung from the right to the left and back again. In Late Admissions, Loury examines what it means to chart a sense of self over the course of a tempestuous, but well-considered, life."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780393881349

0393881342

OCLC:

1398569687