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- catalog abstract ""In closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power, Ms. Mac Donald shows how bad ideas get started and then acquire a life of their own. Her reports trace the transformation of influential opinion-makers (such as the New York Times) and large philanthropic foundations from confident advocates of individual responsibility, opportunity, and learning into apologists for the welfare state. The prevailing orthodoxy of ideas, she finds, has affected our law schools, our schools of education, our museums, even our schools of public health - with ruinous consequences for the teaching of our children."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11786680.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""In closely reported stories from the streets of New York to the seats of intellectual power, Ms. Mac Donald shows how bad ideas get started and then acquire a life of their own. Her reports trace the transformation of influential opinion-makers (such as the New York Times) and large philanthropic foundations from confident advocates of individual responsibility, opportunity, and learning into apologists for the welfare state. The prevailing orthodoxy of ideas, she finds, has affected our law schools, our schools of education, our museums, even our schools of public health - with ruinous consequences for the teaching of our children."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "The Billions of Dollars That Made Things Worse -- Behind the Hundred Neediest Cases -- Public Health Quackery -- Law School Humbug -- Why Johnny's Teacher Can't Teach -- An F for Hip-Hop 101 -- Revisionist Lust: The Smithsonian Today -- Homeless Advocates in Outer Space -- Compassion Gone Mad -- Welfare's Next Vietnam -- Foster Care's Underworld -- Diallo Truth, Diallo Falsehood.".
- catalog extent "xii, 242 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Burden of bad ideas.".
- catalog identifier "1566633370 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "1566633966 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Burden of bad ideas.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : Ivan R. Dee,".
- catalog relation "Burden of bad ideas.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "361.2/5/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Intellectuals United States.".
- catalog subject "JK468.P64 M23 2000".
- catalog subject "Political planning United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Billions of Dollars That Made Things Worse -- Behind the Hundred Neediest Cases -- Public Health Quackery -- Law School Humbug -- Why Johnny's Teacher Can't Teach -- An F for Hip-Hop 101 -- Revisionist Lust: The Smithsonian Today -- Homeless Advocates in Outer Space -- Compassion Gone Mad -- Welfare's Next Vietnam -- Foster Care's Underworld -- Diallo Truth, Diallo Falsehood.".
- catalog title "The burden of bad ideas : how modern intellectuals misshape our society / Heather Mac Donald.".
- catalog type "text".