From the CONSERVATIVE BOOK CLUB...
What It Means to be a Libertarian Murray, Charles
Over the years the Club has proudly offered two of the most widely debated and influential social policy books to appear in recent decades, both authored by Charles Murray: Losing Ground and The Bell Curve. Now, a different book - and perhaps your best source on what it means to be a libertarian.
What makes Dr. Murray's latest book different from all his others? A political scientist of the highest order, Murray's works have always been impeccable documented and technically challenging. But now, after "unanswerably [demolishing] both the moral and the practical claims of the welfare state" (George Gilder), he speaks to us on a much more personal level, as he explains in his introduction: "Many books address the historical, economic, sociological, philosophical, and constitutional issues raised in these pages. A bibliographic essay at the end of the book points you to some of the basic source, but the book you are about to read contains no footnotes. It has no tables and but a single graph. My purpose is not to provide proof but to explain a way of looking at the world."
More than a primer on libertarian ideals, Dr. Murray offers a radical blueprint for overhauling our dysfunctional government and replacing it with a system that safeguards freedom.