The Bell Curve Wars
Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Basic Books
Published:7th Apr '95
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Gustavus Myers Center Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights
The distinguished contributors dismantle the alleged scientific foundations and criticize the alarming public policy conclusions of the book that has inflamed public debate.The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray has generated a firestorm of debate, confirming for some their secret belief in the innate inferiority of certain "races" or ethnic groups, angering many who view the book as an ill-concealed racist manifesto, and worrying untold others who fear the further racial polarization of American society. In The Bell Curve Wars , a group of our country's most distinguished intellectuals dismantles the alleged scientific foundations and criticizes the alarming public policy conclusions of this incendiary book.Anyone who has wondered about the connection among genes, race, and intelligence, all those anxious about racial antagonisms in our nation, those who question the efficacy of social welfare programs, all those troubled but unconvinced by Herrnstein and Murray's book, will want to read The Bell Curve Wars.
ISBN: 9780465006939
Dimensions: 125mm x 202mm x 13mm
Weight: 222g
224 pages