objective truth, you will like Charles Murray s new book, pub date June 15:
Murray writes two distinctly different kinds of book, long and short. In the long books (most recently
Real Education, are more journalistic and less challenging for a reader not well-acquainted with statistics.
(And I just noticed, looking up
Real Education for the link, that its full title includes the word reality, just as this new book s title does. Charles Murray, like your genial diarist, clings to a fusty, absurdly old-fashioned belief in objective reality quite independent of our feelings, wo wo wo feelings.)
This latest Murray book is one of the shorts: 125 pages of main text, with three pages of introduction, twenty pages of endnotes, four pages of maps, and a five-page index. There are several tables and a small handful of graphs (this one my favorite);
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This book traces the history of English law and government for 14 centuries, starting from the roots of English common law to the New World law and justice of today.
Build Wealth with Common Stocks: Market-Beating Strategies for the Individual Investor
David J. Waldron. Country View. $29.95 hardcover (226p), ISBN 978-1-7355524-0-8
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Waldron presents actionable ideas to construct a potentially market-beating portfolio of the common shares of enduring companies to fund life’s significant milestones.
Drifting into the Light: How the Pandemic Changed Lives Forever
J.B. Harris. AuthorHouse. $14.35 paper (136p), ISBN 978-1-6655-8013-7; $4.99 e-book, ISBN 978-1-6655-8012-0