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Beginning in the 1950s, America moved into an interval of unprecedented social reform. This amazing book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and '70s got the unintended and perverse effect of slowing and even reversing early progress in lowering poverty, criminal offense, ignorance, and discrimination. Using extensively recognized and accepted data, it conclusively shows that the amalgam of reforms from 1965 to 1970 actually made issues worse. Why? Charles Murray's tough-minded answers to this question will please neither radical liberals nor radical conservatives. He offers no easy alternatives, but by forcing us to handle important intellectual and moral problems about whom we want to help and how, Losing Surface represents an important first rung on the ladder in rethinking social policy. Charles Murray is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He first emerged to countrywide attention in 1984 with Losing Surface. He received a bachelor's level ever sold from Harvard and a doctorate in politics technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his partner in Burkittsville, Maryland.
