"Jencks is a savvy and clear-thinking policy
analyst." Douglas J. Besharov, Washington Post Book World |
"Christopher Jencks is perhaps the country's most
seasoned, supple thinker on poverty and race." Christopher Farrell, International Business Week |
Jencks . . . not only takes on issues that are
explosively dangerous for a liberal academic but, in the main, does so
without ideological bias, and with consistent intellectual
clarity." Thomas Byrne Edsall, Atlantic Monthly |
"Few social scientists are as thoughtful, perceptive,
and wide-ranging as Christopher Jencks." Sheldon Danziger, Contemporary Sociology |
"Christopher Jencks, I am fully persuaded, is a national
resource." Dennis H. Wrong, New York Times Book Review |
Christopher Jencks is the author of The Homeless (1995) and Rethinking Social Policy. (More to come on this blurb.)
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