The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 by John Carson

The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940

John Carson

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How have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential? In this wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of mer...

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