American Conservative University Podcast

Dennis Prager talks to Charles Murray on His Book Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950  This is an encore show from our ACU archives. About the book: Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950   by Charles Murray–  2004   A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence. "At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.' So begins Charles Murray's unique account of human excellence, from the age of Homer to our own time. Employing techniques that historians have developed over the last century but that have rarely been applied to books written for the general public, Murray compiles inventories of the people who have been essential to the stories of literature, music, art, philosophy, and the sciences—a total of 4