LEADER 04737nam 22008535 450 001 996588070703316 005 20230421040115.0 010 $a0-8147-6946-2 010 $a0-585-32494-8 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814769461 035 $a(CKB)111004368615260 035 $a(EBL)865855 035 $a(OCoLC)782878042 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000122905 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11133504 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122905 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10131574 035 $a(PQKB)10768031 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865855 035 $a(OCoLC)45843991 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10458 035 $a(DE-B1597)547398 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814769461 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004368615260 100 $a20200623h19941994 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aClarence Thomas and the tough love crowd $ecounterfeit heroes and unhappy truths /$fRonald Suresh Roberts 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[1994] 210 4$dİ1994 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-7481-4 311 $a0-8147-7454-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-214) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPreface: The Tough Love Crowd: Disciplined Heroes --$t1. Reality: The Opium of Progressives --$t2. Julien Benda's Constitution --$t3. Tough Love Literati --$t4. Tough Love Economist --$t5. Tough Love Lawyers --$t6. Is Law Like a Friar's Roast? --$t7. Can We Judge Judges? --$t8. Justice Thomas's Sins --$t9. Sir Vidia Naipaul's Revolutionary Truth --$tConclusion: What's So Scary about Partisanship? --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn recent years, black neoconservatism has captured the national imagination. Clarence Thomas sits on the Supreme Court. Stephen Carter's opinions on topics ranging from religion to the confirmation process are widely "ed. The New Republic has written that black neoconservative Thomas Sowell was having a greater influence on the discussion of matters of race and ethnicity than any other writer of the past ten years. In this compelling and vividly argued book, Ronald Roberts reveals how this attention has turned an eccentricity into a movement. Black neoconservatives, Roberts believes, have no real constituency but, as was the case with Clarence Thomas, are held up?and proclaim themselves?as simply and ruthlessly honest, as above mere self-interest and crude political loyalties. They profess a concern for those they criticize, claiming to possess an objective truth which sets them apart from their critics in the establishment Left. They claim to be outsiders even while sustained by the culture's most powerful institutions. As they level attacks at the activist organizations they perceive as moribund, every significant argument they advance rests on fervent mantras of harsh truths and simple realities. Enlisting the ideal of impartiality as a partisan weapon, this Tough Love Crowd has elevated the familiar wisdom of Spare the rod and spoil the child to the arena of national politics. Turning to their own writings and proclamations, Roberts here serves up a devastating critique of such figures as Clarence Thomas, Shelby Steele, Stephen Carter, and V. S. Naipaul (Tough Love International). Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd marks the emergence of a provocative and powerful voice on our cultural and political landscape, a voice which holds those who subscribe to this polemically powerful ideology accountable for their opinions and actions. 606 $aAfrican American intellectuals$xAttitudes 606 $aConservatism$zUnited States 610 $aCarter. 610 $aClarence. 610 $aEnlisting. 610 $aNaipaul. 610 $aRoberts. 610 $aRonald. 610 $aShelby. 610 $aSteele. 610 $aStephen. 610 $aSuresh. 610 $aThomas. 610 $aVS. 610 $ablack. 610 $acritique. 610 $adevastating. 610 $afigures. 610 $aneoconservatives. 610 $aproclamations. 610 $apublic. 610 $aserves. 610 $asuch. 610 $awritings. 615 00$aAfrican American intellectuals$xAttitudes. 615 00$aConservatism 676 $a320.5/2/08996073 700 $aRoberts$b Ronald Suresh$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0661723 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996588070703316 996 $aClarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd$92867306 997 $aUNISA