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David Stoesz, Quixote's Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. $35.00 hardcover.
David Stoesz's Quixote's Ghost is an odd, infuriating and engaging book, one that can cause a sort of intellectual whiplash: it moves from sharp observation to absurd generalization to reasoned analysis to wild assertion, sometimes within the same paragraph. I felt a bit like Quixote myself--or more accurately, like Sancho Panza, chasing after a madman, not sure whether to protect the world from him or him from the world. That, I suspect, was part of the intent. Stoesz wants to explain why contemporary American social policy has failed to better provide safety and security, or to adapt to the post-industrial world, and he clearly wants be an equal opportunity offender--that's all to the good, for the Republican and...
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