Losing Ground
American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
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Losing Ground
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Narrated by:
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Robert Morris
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Written by:
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Charles Murray
About this listen
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.
Charles Murray is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He first came to national attention in 1984 with Losing Ground. 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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-03-28
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Audio quality could be clearer difficult to listen too at higher speeds but overall an interesting perspective
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- Remi
- 2022-09-14
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Audio quality up to 1989’s standard, the year it was "taped" from what I understand, so…
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Zork (the) Hun
- 2024-07-06
Unlistenable
I have read the book several times,
I wanted to introduce it to someone on a long drive.
The quality of the recording is so bad, that we had to give up on it completely after a while.
I tried to play it on other devices as well to conclude that the problems is with the recording.
Seriously disappointed.
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