Up from the Projects: An Autobiography

Walter E. Williams

$24.95

Publication Date: December 1st, 2010

Publisher:

Hoover Institution Press

ISBN:

9780817912543

Pages:

160

Description

Nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighborhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an "only in America" story of a life of achievement.

About the Author

Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author of several books and more than sixty articles that have appeared in such scholarly journals such as Economic Inquiry, American Economic Review, and Social Science Quarterly and popular publications such as Reader's Digest, Regulation, Policy Review, and Newsweek.

Praise for Up from the Projects: An Autobiography

"As Williams grew up in Philadelphia in the 1930s-40s, his mother held him to high expectations in school. [...] His independent personality later primed him to resist big-government ideologies as a UCLA-trained economist and a professor at George Mason University" —Emily Whitten, World Magazine