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February 11, 2012The Classes Drift Apart: Can the rich save the American dream by preaching what they practise?JUST because he belongs to it himself does not make Newt Gingrich wrong when he grumbles that America is run by an out-of-touch elite. If you want evidence, the data can now be found in a book published this week by Charles Murray, the co-author in 1994 of "The Bell Curve", which became controversial for positing a link between race and intelligence. That controversy should not deter you. "Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010" brims with ideas about what ails America.Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 11, 2012 6:34 PM Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: Newsletter signup | Send us your ideas Comments
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