The seminal book about IQ and class that ignited one of the most
explosive controversies in decades, now updated with a new Afterword
by Charles Murray

Breaking new ground and old taboos, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles
Murray tell the story of a society in transformation. At the top,
a cognitive elite is forming in which the passkey to the best schools
and the best jobs is no longer social background but high intelligence.
At the bottom, the common denominator of the underclass is increasingly
low intelligence rather than racial or social disadvantage.

The Bell Curve describes the state of scientific knowledge about
questions that have been on people's minds for years but have been
considered too sensitive to talk about openly -- among them, IQ's
relationship to crime, unemployment, welfare, child neglect, poverty,
and illegitimacy; ethnic differences in intelligence; trends in
fertility among women of different levels of intelligence; and what
policy can do -- and cannot do -- to compensate for differences in
intelligence. Brilliantly argued and meticulously documented, The Bell
Curve is the essential first step in coming to grips with the nation's
social problems.

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