Curmudgeons in charge.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Briefly Noted - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead - Brief article - Book review

Charles Murray, author of Losing Ground and The Bell Curve, has published a saucy, skinny little book, The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead (Random House). The book began as a popular lecture/harangue that Murray traditionally delivered to interns at the American Enterprise Institute, where he Is a scholar.

Curmudgeons, he writes, are "highly successful people of both genders who are Inwardly grumpy about many aspects of contemporary culture, make quickand pitiless judgements about yourbehaviorin the workplace, and don't hesitate to act on those judgements in deciding who gets promoted...