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The decline of intelligence in America : a strategy for national renewal

Title
The decline of intelligence in America : a strategy for national renewal / Seymour W. Itzkoff.
Author
Itzkoff, Seymour W.
Publication
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1994.

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viii, 242 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • Few doubt that the United States has slipped from its longstanding eminence as the world's wealthiest and most productive nation. The problem for the past thirty years has been the diagnosis of both the decline and then the cure. Literally trillions of dollars have been expended in futile programs to staunch the hemorrhaging of our economic wealth, jobs, educational achievement, and cultural elan.
  • Itzkoff argues that we will never stop the fall until we understand our real national dilemma. This is the decline in our national intelligence profile: fewer citizens of high intelligence, educational potential, and economic productivity. These ideas are taboo. Itzkoff, however, insists that these are the facts, and they must be examined.
  • In this book, he lays out the available evidence for our social disintegration and suggests a rational program of policy initiatives that would begin to restore us to what we were as recently as 1955 - the great hope of the world.
Subject
  • Intelligence levels > United States > History > 20th century
  • Intellect > United States > History > 20th century
  • United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. I. Decline. 1. Introduction: Truth and National Survival. 2. Nations, Powerful and Wealthy. 3. America's Greatness. 4. Economics: Is the Sleeper a Giant? 5. Our Educational Wreckage. 6. The Social Bond Unravels. 7. Ebb Tide. 8. The Free Market of High Intelligence. 9. The Tragedy of Low Intelligence -- Pt. II. Renewal. 10. Defensive Driving. 11. The American Family. 12. A Non-Hyphenated People: W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). 13. Immigration: Hot War. 14. Disestablishing State Schooling. 15. Middle-Class Economics and the Social Contract. 16. Natality: World War III.
ISBN
0275944670 (alk. paper)
LCCN
93005416
OCLC
  • 28419950
  • ocm28419950
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries