A follow-up to the best-selling Losing the Race argues for a renewed commitment to achievement and integration in order to address critical issues facing the African-American community, from poverty and drug abuse to gang violence and educational underachievement. Reprint.

Once languages become written, they change. This work argues that the 1960's rejection of cultural traits associated with the Establishment, as well as a democratic celebration of what anyone can do over what requires training or talent, has led to our culture being impoverished, both intellectually and artistically, a culture that hates itself.

This text provides a guided tour of languages, aiming to be at once both thought-provoking and entertaining. Examining such things as the way in which Yiddish has been influenced by the grammar of Polish, and how English absorbed French at two stages of its history.

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