New York: Encounter Books, (2006). First edition - A collection of contrarian essays by "one of America's foremost black conservative intellectuals who argues that 'internal' cultural habits of industriousness, thriftiness, family solidarity and reverence for education often play a greater role in the success of ethnic minorities than do civil-rights laws or majority prejudices.. . Many of Sowell's arguments. . will arouse controversy, but these vigorously argued essays present a stimulating challenge to the conventional wisdom." (Publishers Weekly) Notes, index. xi, 372 pp. ISBN: 1-594031436.

Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A critical and scholarly commentary of Dickens' visits to America, in 1842 and again in 1867-68, based on new materials, letters, diaries, and publishers' records. While giving fascinating details of the frustrations of the tours - the lack of copyright protection, the ticket speculators' systematic successes, the ups and downs of Dickens's catarrh, and the steady inroads he made into the heart of Annie Fields, his American publisher's young wife - this also makes the argument that the first visit darkened Dicken's views of society and human nature for the rest of his life, and the second visit, while somewhat more sucessful, was neither as lucrative or as smooth as Dickens wanted. Extensive notes, index. xv, 272pp. ISBN: 0-8131-17070.