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  Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing American Schools Back to Reality

  by Charles A. Murray

  With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve , sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment. Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn academic material. Doing our best for every child requires, above all else, that we embrace that simplest of truths. America’s... (more)
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  What It Means to Be a Libertarian

  by Charles A. Murray

  Charles Murray believes that America's founders had it right--strict limits on the power of the central government and strict protection of the individual are the keys to a genuinely free society. In What It Means to Be a Libertarian, he proposes a government reduced to the barest essentials: an executive branch consisting only of the White House and trimmed-down departments of state, defense, justice, and... (more)
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  Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980

  by Charles A. Murray

  With a new introduction by the author, this tenth anniversary edition of the classic book argues that the ambitious social programs of the Great Society designed to help the poor and disadvantaged often made things worse.
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  In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State

  by Charles A. Murray

  Murray offers a plan to eliminate all federal welfare programs and to substitute a $10,000 annual cash grant for everyone age 21 or older.