Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America

by Jared Taylor

Book Overview

Taylor believes that racism has declined dramatically in virtually all areas of American life, yet an enormous body of policy and opinion rests on the belief that American society is relentlessly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786700254
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating book!

I heard Mr. Taylor on a talk radio station some years ago and became interested in this book. This book not only is a great read which I was not able to put down, but also contains fascinating information on the taboo subject of racial differences. Read if you dare!

A COURAGEOUS LOOK AT AN OFTEN INTIMIDATING SUBJECT

Jared Taylor has taken sober aim at one of this country's most intractible social ills: the dissonance between justice and equality in a free society. Too often, our system is found to be badly out of focus with regard to fairness as well as fact. Mr. Taylor skillfully documents this time and again with failure after failure on the part of the "equality of opportunity" industry, academia, government, workplace, and media. Still, as Mr. Taylor mentions in the introduction, this is a hopeful book, replete with honest conclusions and recommendations in a cogent epilougue. This book will sadden, shock, infuriate, and validate many a reader. More still will be called to examine the myths of the so-called civil rights movement as it currently exists in America. It is often unpleasant reading, but paradoxically it is a page-turner; the truth often has this quality about it. I recommended this book to all my friends upon finishing it. Even if you are a dyed in the wool liberal (or perhaps especially if you are) you owe it to yourself to read this book.I'm saddened by the difficulty Mr. Taylor has encountered in publishing and selling this book. Perhaps America is not ready for the truth in such a straightforward way as it is presented here. This is truly a visionary work.

A hard look at race relations in the United States

Jared Taylor discusses the failure of race relations in the United States, in this carefully written, scholarly work, in which he cites case after case, time after time when the government mandates and court orders have failed to gain the desired result.This is not some wild-eyed, white power, white supremacist talking. Taylor's approach is thoughtful, reasoned, and hard to reproach. He discusses racism, from both sides, and including its accusatory use as a weapon of intimidation. He discusses the failures of Affirmative Action, and double standards, and the permanent underclass, and the fact that equality before the law is no longer even a concept, and possible solutions.This is a good book. His other book, 'The Real American Dilemma,' is also worth your time.Joseph Pierre, Author of THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS: Our Journey Through Eternity

Critical reading for the independent thinker

This one of those very few books that I want my son to read before finishing high school. It debunks the current consensus on race relations in this country, and provides fact after fact, footnote after footnote, and source after source to back up it's assertions. No empty rhetoric here! On the contrary, it is a well-researched, well documented work. In a communication I had with the author, he stated that writing it was not the hard part, getting it published was. He mentions that many publishers, worried about public outcry, stated that the only way they could publish such a book was if the author was black. A telling statement on Truth vs. Political Correctness in our society.