"'A Conflict of Visions' will become a classic of a very special kind.  Every once in a blue moon. . . a scholar will throw out a gem of a book, crafted with a passion for the truth and love for mankind.  Reading books like these is like looking up at the night sky and discovering a new constellation.  Thomas Sowell is suddenly up there now."
                                                    --Christian Science Monitor

"It is recommended herewith to anybody sufficiently interested in the American condition to try to get beneath the surface of partisanship, trendy issues and pop ideology to the philosophical foundations of the Republic."
                                                              --Boston Globe

"An excellent condensation of two centuries of social thought." 
                                                                  --Booklist

"I would recommend the book to those of us who disagree profoundly with its conclusions."
                                                           --Michael Harrington