Monday, June 12, 2017

Coming Apart

Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960 - 2010 by Charles Murray, 2012

I read this book in March to June 2017. It took me awhile to get through it.

This book started out thoughtful and fascinating to read with a wealth of data, charts and analysis that focused on white people and the growing class divide. However, the conservative leaning libertarian author’s conclusions were contrived, myopic, and by the end his biased interpretation of the data devolves into a right wing political screed. IMHO, the author of this political document took 400 words to describe the economic, social and political problems of our nation where I would have used just one word… reaganomics. This is also the guy who wrote that controversial book The Bell Curve back in 1994.

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