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From its founding, a unique feature of the Manhattan Institute’s
approach has been our book program. Over the last twenty-five years,
the Institute has sponsored and promoted some sixty-three books
(see
the MI Book Catalog). We ensure that our authors meet the
rigorous intellectual and editorial standards demanded by major
publishers, and we promote the books to the media, opinion leaders,
and the general public.
The most successful of our books have opened new intellectual frontiers
and given impetus to whole movements for political and social reform.
Charles Murray’s Losing
Ground started the chain of events that has led to welfare
reform. Peter Huber’s Liability
and Galileo’s
Revenge and Walter Olson’s The
Litigation Explosion sparked the national debate on civil
justice, science in the courts, and tort reform. Myron Magnet’s
The Dream and the Nightmare drew attention to the devastating and
lingering impact of the Sixties’ “counterculture”
on the urban underclass. Sy Fliegel showed the world how school
choice could benefit the most disadvantaged students in Miracle
in East Harlem. Linda Chavez, in Out of the Barrio, issued a rebuke
to both nativists and multiculturalists by demonstrating that Hispanic
citizens and immigrants are by no means fated to economic and social
failure. Lawrence Lindsey’s The Growth Experiment put forth
what many consider to be the strongest case yet for a supply-side
tax policy.
By almost any measure—reviews, speaking engagements, radio and
television bookings, magazine and newspaper articles, op-ed pieces—our
latest books have amply demonstrated the power of well-written and
well-marketed books.
In particular, we can point to a series of recent successes: the
acclaimed landmark study of race in the United States, America in
Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible by Stephan and Abigail
Thernstrom; Walter Olson’s provocative and much-discussed The
Excuse Factory: How Employment Law is Paralyzing the American Workplace;
the widely-cited Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing
Crime in Our Communities by George Kelling and Catherine Coles;
and, most recently, Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished
Struggle for Integration by Tamar Jacoby. We believe these successes
signal a broad receptivity to books such as ours on the part of
opinion makers as well as the general public. We are committed to
sponsoring books of quality and intelligence in the years ahead.
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