How long does it take to read The Vision of the Anointed?
The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell takes about 5 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 305 pages, about 83,875 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This critique of failed social policies of the past 30 years sees what has happened not as isolated mistakes, but as the consequence of the tainted vision of the "anointed", leading to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies.
Subjects: Elite (Social sciences), Social policy
