1. F.R. Leavis once said the Sitwell siblings "belong to the history of publicity rather than of poetry." Similarly, Charles Murray belongs to the history of marketing rather than ideas.
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3. Wall Street Journal, 1994: Bell Curve was "swept forward by a strategy that provided book galleys to likely supporters while withholding them from likely critics" -- “to fix the fight when it released review copies selectively, contrary to usual publishing protocols.”
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4. I argue here that the way Bell Curve was marketed is a big part of what it was all about:https://newrepublic.com/article/147960/charles-murray-marketing-genius …
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