Late Admissions
Confessions of a Black Conservative
Will be published approx. on 20. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-324-11672-1 (ISBN)
Description
Glenn C. Loury is often radically opposed to the political mainstream and delights in upending what's expected of a Black public figure. But more than the arguments themselves, 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 and a Black Reaganite. In Late Admissions, Loury examines what it means to chart a sense of self over the course of a tempestuous but well-considered life.
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 and a Black Reaganite. In Late Admissions, Loury examines what it means to chart a sense of self over the course of a tempestuous but well-considered life.
Reviews / Votes
"Breathtakingly good, and extraordinarily candid. Loury is perhaps the best writer of nonfiction in America, but Late Admissions advances well beyond that. Its self-reflexive, 'house of mirrors' structure reminds me of Amor Towles' prizewinning fiction. Even more deeply, the book has forced me to interrogate my own reactions to it." -- Robert D. Putnam, The New York Times best-selling author of Bowling Alone "Unlike any economist's memoir I have ever read.... Being in the thick of America's culture wars, as a Black intellectual on the political right, has yielded a vivid bounty." -- Dwight Garner - The New York Times "Late Admissionsis a zestfully written book, packed with humor, pathos and hard-earned wisdom." -- John McMillan - The Washington Post "For all [Glenn Loury's] moral defects, we find ourselves admiring him for his intellectual valor and the pugnacity of his convictions." -- Tunku Varadarajan - The Wall Street JournalMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 207 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-324-11672-1 (9781324116721)
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E-Book
05/2024
W. W. Norton & Company
€18.49
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Person
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.