Description
Book SynopsisProlific 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 neighbourhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an ‘only in America’ story of a life of achievement.
Trade ReviewWhen I finished reading
Up from the Projects, I wished it had been a longer book. But it got the job done—and its insights are much needed today." — Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution
Table of Contents
- Preface
- ONE Starting Out
- TWO Rudderless and Drifting
- THREE In the Army Now
- FOUR Heading West for Opportunity
- FIVE Heading East for Opportunity
- SIX Teaching and Preaching
- SEVEN Afterthoughts
- Index
