Charles Murray (author)
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Charles A. Murray (born 1943) is an American writer and researcher. He is best known as the co-author of The Bell Curve.
Murray obtained a Ph.D in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute since 1990. He has been a frequent contributor to The Public Interest, a journal of conservative politics and culture.
Murray has received grants from the right-wing Bradley Foundation to support his scholarship, including the writing of The Bell Curve. As a result of that book's controversial claims, Murray reportedly received bomb threats. He was also denounced as a racist by Jesse Jackson.
He has also written several other books on modern social issues and politics.
Works
- Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, Basic Books (1984) ISBN 0465042317
- In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government, Simon & Schuster (1989) ISBN 0671687433
- The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, with Richard Herrnstein, (1994) ISBN 0029146739
- What it Means to be a Libertarian, Broadway Books (1997) ISBN 0553069284
- Income Inequality and IQ, AEI Press (1998) PDF copy (http://www.aei.org/docLib/20040302_book443.pdf)
- The Underclass Revisited, AEI Press (1999) PDF copy (http://www.aei.org/docLib/20040311_book268text.pdf)
- Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950, HarperCollins (2003) ISBN 006019247Xde:Charles Murray