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Murray & Putnam: Is Class Division Tearing U.S. Apart?

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David Gergen

David Gergen is a professor of public service and director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School. In addition, he serves as a senior political analyst for CNN and contributes to Parade Magazine. In the past, he has served as a White House adviser to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. He wrote about those experiences in his New York Times best-seller, Eyewitness to Power. In the 1980s, he also served as chief editor of US News & World Report. He serves on many boards, including Teach for America, City Year, the Schwab Foundation, and the Aspen Institute, and is chair of the advisory board for Elon University School of Law. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, a veteran of the US Navy, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the US executive committee for the Trilateral Commission.

Dr. Charles Murray

Charles Murray is the author of several books, including his most recent, Coming Apart, which describes an unprecedented divergence in American social? classes over the last half century. He is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Murray first came to national attention in 1984 with Losing Ground, which has been credited as the intellectual foundation for the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. In 1994, The Bell Curve, coauthored with Richard J. Herrnstein, sparked heated controversy for its analysis of the role of IQ in shaping America’s class structure. Murray’s other books include In Pursuit, What It Means to Be a Libertarian, Human Accomplishment, In Our Hands, and Real Education.

Robert Putnam

Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a visiting professor at University of Manchester (UK). His most recent book, American Grace, co-authored with David Campbell, focuses on the role of religion in American public life. Putnam is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the British Academy, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a past president of the American Political Science Association. Putnam won the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 2006 and has served as an adviser to presidents and national leaders around the world. He has written a dozen books, including Bowling Alone and Making Democracy Work. The Sunday Times called Putnam "the most influential academic in the world today."

Robert Putnam: America’s Class Divide Is Not About Race

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Robert Putnam, a public policy professor at Harvard University, says that rich African-Americans share much more in common with rich white Americans than they do with their poor racial counterparts.
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