Books by Shelby Steele and Complete Book Reviews

Shelby Steele, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (181p) ISBN 978-0-06-057862-6
Speaking the language of moralism, individual freedom and responsibility, contrarian cultural critic Steele builds on ideas he earlier articulated in his National Book Critics Circle Award–winner The Content of Our Character (1990). Today'
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Shelby Steele, Author . Free Press $22 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5917-7
Why we are excited: Obama is a talented, charismatic politician and living proof that whites have welcomed blacks into the mainstream. Why he can't win: He's still mired in an ideology of racial victimhood and separatism that Steele (White
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Shelby Steele, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (185p) ISBN 978-0-06-016823-0
In these essays, self-described black conservative Steele (The Content of Our Character) denounces what he calls unsuccessful liberal intervention to promote equal opportunity for African Americans. The author, a fellow at the Hoover Institution at...
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Shelby Steele. Basic, $25.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-465-06697-1
Steele (White Guilt), a leading intellectual and senior scholar at the Hoover Institution, inquires into white guilt and liberal dogma, challenging ideas that he finds pervasive on the left. A fixation on the “struggle for white redemption,” Steele...
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Shelby Steele, Author, Julia Steele, Author Harper Perennial $12.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-097415-2
Steele, seeking to improve strained race relations, demonstrates how social policies intensify rather than lessen racial differences, how blacks and whites tend to see color before character, and how blacks are often oppressed more by doubt in their
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