Postulating that a "cognitive elite" are at the top of a new class structure in America, and that low intelligence levels are at the root of many social problems, the authors challenge the fundamental American belief that everyone is created equal. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Richard Herrnstein

Charles Murray

Social Sciences

Free Press

Analysis by leading American economic theorist Charles Murray of the emergence of a British underclass defined not only by poverty but by violent crime, dropping out of the labor force and illegitimacy. The commentaries by the British social policy analysts largely reject Murray's arguments. Twenty years on, the arguments still rage. 82 pages.

The Emerging British Underclass (Choice in Welfare Series No. 2)

Institute Of Economic Affairs

Underclass: The Crisis Deepens

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

Crown Forum

Book by Richard J. Herrnstein; Charles Murray

BELL CURVE

Richard J. Herrnstein

Sociology

Simon&Schuster

Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 (Library Edition)

Business & Money

Economics

Blackstone Audiobooks

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (Library Edition)

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

[Read by Traber Burns]* Includes a bonus disc with graphs and charts. From the bestselling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that have historically joined our classes. In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity. Drawing on five decades of statistics and research, Coming Apart demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying American kinship -- a divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality and that has grown during good economic times and bad. The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, Murray argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. This divergence puts the success of the American project at risk. The evidence in Coming Apart is about white America. Its message is about all of America.

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Traber Burns] * Includes a bonus disc with graphs and charts. From the bestselling author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, this startling long-lens view shows how America is coming apart at the seams that have historically joined our classes. In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity. Drawing on five decades of statistics and research, Coming Apart demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying American kinship -- a divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality and that has grown during good economic times and bad. The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, Murray argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. This divergence puts the success of the American project at risk. The evidence in Coming Apart is about white America. Its message is about all of America.

[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Robert Morris] Beginning in the 1950s, America entered a period of unprecedented social reform. This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and '70s had the unintended and perverse effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, ignorance, and discrimination. Using widely understood and accepted data, it conclusively demonstrates that the amalgam of reforms from 1965 to 1970 actually made matters worse. Why? Charles Murray's tough-minded answers to this question will please neither radical liberals nor radical conservatives. He offers no easy solutions, but by forcing us to face fundamental intellectual and moral problems about whom we want to help and how, Losing Ground marks an important first step in rethinking social policy.

History

Americas

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