Thomas Sowell Personality Type
American author, economist, and political commentator
Thomas Sowell (; born June 30, 1930) is an American author, economist, political commentator, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina to a poor family, later growing up in Harlem, New York. Due to financial issues and deteriorated home conditions, he dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. Upon returning to the United States, Sowell took night classes at Howard University before attending Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude in 1958. He earned his master's degree in economics from Columbia University the next year and received a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968.
