THE ALL-TIME GREATS.(The Talk of the Town)(party celebrates book by Charles Murray, 'Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950')

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 10-NOV-03

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Roger Hertog, the vice-chairman of Alliance Capital, the chairman of the Manhattan Institute, and the moneybags behind the New York Sun, opened up his Fifth Avenue apartment the other night for a party to celebrate the publication of a new book by Charles Murray, entitled "Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950." Halfway through the evening, Hertog asked for a few moments of quiet from his guests--Norman Podhoretz, Michael Barone, and other conservative eminences--in order to say a few bonhomous words about the accomplishments of the guest of honor. One of the things about Charles Murray's books, Hertog announced, is that they are almost all wrong. At least, that's what the guests at the back of the room...

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