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Coming Apart: The Review

Book Review
David Frum
David Frum
Published Feb. 9 2012 6:10PM EST 
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David Frum recently reviewed Charles Murray's new book: "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010". Here are all the parts to the review, and some supplementary blog posts.

Part 1: Is the White Working Class Coming Apart?

Part 2: Charles Murray's Imaginary Elite

Part 3: What the Founders Would Tell Charles Murray

Part 4: Social Science Minus the Science

Part 5: Now All Americans are Losing Ground

Answering a Murray Defender.

Postscript to the Murray Review.

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