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Losing Ground
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American Social Policy, 1950-1980
Tenth-Anniversary Edition
By Charles Murray
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
Losing Ground
Dimensions: 9.22'' x 6.13''
352 pages
Basic Books
Publication Date: February 1995
Paperback
ISBN: 0465042333
Hardcover
ISBN: 0465042317

This outspoken and explosive book argues that the ambitious social programs of the Great Society to help the poor and disadvantaged not only did not accomplish what they set out to do but often made things worse.

Charles Murray, a social scientist and writer, is a Bradley Fellow at AEI.

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