Late Admissions - Confessions of a Black Conservative

Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public American 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 characterised 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 programme 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.

About the author

Glenn C. Loury, a prominent social critic, is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and professor of economics at Brown University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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

Product details

• Authors: Glenn Loury, Loury Glenn C.
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2024
• EAN: 9780393881349
• ISBN: 978-0-393-88134-9
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 236 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 736 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Memoirs, Politics & government, Politics and government, Relating to African American / Black American people, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs