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Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980
Contributor(s): Murray, Charles (Author), Morris, Robert (Read by)

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ISBN: 1455165840     ISBN-13: 9781455165841
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
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Binding Type: Compact Disc - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy
- History | United States - 20th Century
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
Dewey: 361.610
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 5.7" L (0.57 lbs)
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1950's
- Chronological Period - 1960's
- Chronological Period - 1970's
Features: Price on Product, Unabridged
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Murray, Charles: -

Charles Murray is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He first came to national attention in 1984 with his book Losing Ground. His book Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010 was a New York Times bestseller and named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012 by the New York Times Book Review. His other books include In Pursuit, The Bell Curve (with Richard J. Herrnstein), What It Means to Be a Libertarian, Human Accomplishment, In Our Hands, and Real Education. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard and a doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife in Burkittsville, Maryland.

Morris, Robert: -

Robert Morris is the founding senior pastor of Gateway Church, a multi-campus, evangelistic, spirit-empowered church in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. He is featured on the weekly television program The Blessed Life, broadcast to approximately ninety million homes in the United States and more than two hundred countries around the world. He is the bestselling author of ten books, including From Dream to Destiny, The Power of Your Words, and The God I Never Knew.


 
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