Charles A. Murray

The controversial best-selling author of The Bell Curve presents a sobering critique of the white American class structure that argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass, with culturally disastrous potential.

The State of White America, 1960-2010

Coming Apart

Catherine Bly Cox

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Apollo

A whimsical guide to workplace etiquette shares real-world advice on everything from political correctness and good writing to thinking critically and treating others with respect. By the author of the best-selling Coming Apart.

Dos and Don'ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life

The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead

Richard J. Herrnstein

The seminal book about IQ and class that ignited one of the most explosive controversies in decades, now updated with a new Afterword by Charles Murray Breaking new ground and old taboos, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray tell the story of a society in transformation. At the top, a cognitive elite is forming in which the passkey to the best schools and the best jobs is no longer social background but high intelligence. At the bottom, the common denominator of the underclass is increasingly low intelligence rather than racial or social disadvantage. The Bell Curve describes the state of scientific knowledge about questions that have been on people's minds for years but have been considered too sensitive to talk about openly -- among them, IQ's relationship to crime, unemployment, welfare, child neglect, poverty, and illegitimacy; ethnic differences in intelligence; trends in fertility among women of different levels of intelligence; and what policy can do -- and cannot do -- to compensate for differences in intelligence. Brilliantly argued and meticulously documented, The Bell Curve is the essential first step in coming to grips with the nation's social problems.

Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

The Bell Curve

four simple truths for bringing American schools back to reality

Real education

Arguing that the current welfare state cannot survive, proposes the elimination of all income transfer programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, and corporate subsidies, and the substitution of an annual cash grant of $10,000 for life for all Americans over the age of twenty-one.

A Plan to Replace the Welfare State

In Our Hands

The best-selling author of Coming Apart exposes what he sees as the corruption of government regulation and charts a new course for restoring individual freedom and limited government in our daily affairs.

Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

By the People

A modern classic--back in print and available again. Originally published in 1988, this book draws on advances in psychology and sociology to explore the fundamental questions of what is meant by "success". Rich in fascinating case studies. Line drawings, graphs and tables.

Of Happiness and Good Government

In Pursuit

The phrase American exceptionalism is used in many ways and for many purposes, but its original meaning involved a statement of fact: for the first century after the Constitution went into effect, European observers and Americans alike saw the United States as exceptional, with political and civic cultures that had no counterparts anywhere else. In American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History, Charles Murray describes how America s geography, ideology, politics, and daily life set the new nation apart from Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. He then discusses the ways that exceptionalism changed during America s evolution over the course of the 20th century. Which changes are gains to be applauded? Which are losses to be mourned? Answering these questions is the essential first step in discovering what you want for America s future.

An Experiment in History

American Exceptionalism

Describes how a group of men and women accomplished the feat of landing men on the moon and returning them to earth.

Apollo, the Race to the Moon

All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same -- a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences. The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three dogmas: - Gender is a social construct. - Race is a social construct. - Class is a function of privilege. The problem is that all three dogmas are half-truths. They have stifled progress in understanding the rich texture that biology adds to our understanding of the social, political, and economic worlds we live in. It is not a story to be feared. "There are no monsters in the closet," Murray writes, "no dread doors we must fear opening." But it is a story that needs telling. Human Diversity does so without sensationalism, drawing on the most authoritative scientific findings, celebrating both our many differences and our common humanity.

The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

Human Diversity

The Emerging British Underclass

The Happiness of the People was the 2009 Irving Kristol Lecture, delivered at the American Enterprise Institute s Annual Dinner on March 11, 2009. The Irving Kristol Award is given annually to a scholar who has made extraordinary contributions to improved public policy and social welfare."

The Happiness of the People

This book examines statistics on illegitimacy, criminality, and the dropout rate from the labor force for four checkpoints from 1954 to 1997.

The Underclass Revisited

Recommends a return to the drastically limited federal government of America's beginnings as the key to creating more individual freedom and fulfillment

A Personal Interpretation

What it Means to be a Libertarian

Measuring success in social policy -- Coming to terms with happiness -- Enabling conditions and thresholds -- Material resources -- Safety -- Dignity, self-esteem, and self-respect -- Enjoyment, self-actualization, and intrinsic rewards -- Policy and an idea of man -- Asking a new question, getting new answers: evaluating results -- Asking a new question, getting new answers: designing solutions -- Searching for solutions that work: changing the metaphor -- Little platoons -- "To close the circle of our felicities.

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