Charles
Murray, is the Bradley Fellow at the American Enterprise
Institute. He first came to national attention with Losing Ground:
American Social Policy 1950-1980, the controversial analysis of the
reforms of the 1960s. This was followed in 1988 by In Pursuit: Of
Happiness and Good Government. In 1994, he and the late Richard J.
Herrnstein published The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure
in American Life, one of the most widely debated works of social
science in recent decades. His new book, WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A
LIBERTARIAN: A Personal Interpretation will be published by
Broadway Books on January 27, 1997.
Murray has been the
subject of cover articles in Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, The
Los Angeles Times Magazine, and segments on "20/20," "PrimeTime Live,"
"60 Minutes," and all the network evening news programs. He has been a
guest on "Nigh tline," "This Week with David Brinkley," "Meet the Press,"
"The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour," "Firing Line," "Crossfire," "Today," and
"Good Morning America," among other programs. Murray was named by the
National Journal as one of the 150 "People Who Make a Difference" in
national policy-making
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