Books written by Charles Murray

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

Social Science Research Center. Photocopy. Duncan, G. J., and Hoffman, S. D. 1990. Welfare benefits, economic opportunities, and out-of-wedlock births among black teenage girls. Demography 27:519–535. Duncan, G. J., and Laren, D. 1990.
By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

Charles Dickens's famous opening of A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” applies to us. Part I of this book described some of the ways in which this is the worst of times.
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

The Correlation Coefficient Modern statistics provide more than one method for measuring correlation, but we confine ourselves to the one that is most important in both use and generality: the Pearson productmoment correlation ...
Scottish War Poets: A Highland Regiment , Marlborough and Other Poems, Deveron Days, A Sough O’War

A Scottish lost treasures collection of four Scottish poetry anthologies all strongly influenced by the First World War.
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

Dilulio, John J., Jr., and Anne Morrison Piehl. 1991. Does prison pay?: The stormy national debate over the cost-effectiveness of ... Donahue, Michael J., and Peter L. Benson. 1995. Religion and the well-being of adolescents.
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, 10th Anniversary Edition

... Jonathan, 173,294 Kristol, Irving, 28 Krock, Arthur, 21, 266 Krute, Aaron, 269 Kuhn, Thomas S., 41,268 L'Abate, ... 50, 67, 181; see also Affirmative Action and Welfare, eligibility rules for Leibowitz, Arleen, 286 Levin, Henry M., ...
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, 10th Anniversary Edition

Levin , Henry M. " A Decade of Policy Developments in Improving Education and Training for Low - Income Populations . " In A Decade of Federal Antipoverty Programs , edited by Robert ... Linn , Robert L. " Admissions Testing on Trial .
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980

This classic book serves as a starting point for any serious discussion of welfare reform.
Losing Ground

Argues that the ambitious social programmes of the Great Society designed to help the poor and disadvantaged not only did not accomplish what they set out to do, but often...
Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality

These are the people for whom Real Education was written. It is they, not the politicians or the educational establishment, who will bring American schools back to reality.
Charles Murray and the Underclass: The Developing Debate

In 1993 he returned to check on its progress, and the resulting article, also for The Sunday Times, was published with commentaries by critics of Murray's thesis, thus presenting the reader with a range of views on the issue. schools and ...
Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

Since we have not been willing to say that, we have been left defenseless against the claims that racism is to blame. What else could it be? We have been afraid to answer. We must. Facing Reality is a step in that direction.
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950

Employing techniques that historians have developed over the last century but that have rarely been applied to books written for the general public, Murray compiles inventories of the people who have been essential to the stories of ...
The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don'ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good...

Witty, wise, and pulling no punches, The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead is an indispensable sourcebook for living an adult life.
In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State

Imagine that the United States were to scrap all its income transfer programs—including Social Security, Medicare, and all forms of welfare—and give every American age twenty-one and older $10,000 a year for life.This is the Plan, a ...
Facing Reality: Straight Talk about Race

"Facing Reality provides a powerful overview of one perspective that those who allege sweeping forms of systemic or institutional racism find it all to convenient to ignore―or cancel without due consideration."―Wilfred Reilly, ...
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity. “I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so ...
Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality

With four truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment. •Ability varies.
What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation

Charles Murray believes that America's founders had it right--strict limits on the power of the central government and strict protection of the individual are the keys to a genuinely free society.
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

" 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.