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Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book) (English and English Edition) By Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray ISBN: 9780684824291 ASIN: B000I6WVHQ ASIN: B007YZW4J4 ASIN: B00A2P85YQ ASIN: B0092GA1X4 Published: 1996 Number of Pages: 912 Edition: 1st Binding: Paperback | |
Pricing & Availability:Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Free Press Description: Michael Novak National Review Our intellectual landscape has been disrupted by the equivalent of an earthquake. David Brooks The Wall Street Journal Has already kicked up more reaction than any social?science book this decade. Peter Brimelow Forbes Long-awaited...massive, meticulous, minutely detailed, clear. Like Darwin's Origin of Species -- the intellectual event with which it is being seriously compared -- The Bell Curve offers a new synthesis of research...and a hypothesis of far-reaching explanatory power. Milton Friedman This brilliant, original, objective, and lucidly written book will force you to rethink your biases and prejudices about the role that individual difference in intelligence plays in our economy, our policy, and our society. Chester E. Finn, Jr. Commentary The Bell Curve's implications will be as profound for the beginning of the new century as Michael Harrington's discovery of "the other America" was for the final part of the old. Richard Herrnstein's bequest to us is a work of great value. Charles Murray's contribution goes on. Prof. Thomas J. Bouchard Contemporary Psychology [The authors] have been cast as racists and elitists and The Bell Curve has been dismissed as pseudoscience....The book's message cannot be dismissed so easily. Herrnstein and Murray have written one of the most provocative social science books published in many years....This is a superbly written and exceedingly well documented book. Christopher Caldwell American Spectator The Bell Curve is a comprehensive treatment of its subject,never mean-spirited or gloating. It gives a fair hearing to those who dissent scientifically from its propositions -- in fact, it bends over backward to be fair....Among the dozens of hostile articles that have thus far appeared, none has successfully refuted any of its science. |