Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public 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 characterized 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 program, 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.

Author: Glenn Loury
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/14/2024
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780393881349


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2024