Life at the Bottom : The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

By: Theodore Dalrymple

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Paperback | 1 March 2003

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This work is an account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England. Its insight is that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values, one that is continually reinforced by an elite culture searching for victims. It draws upon eye-opening, true-life vignettes that are by turns hilariously funny, chillingly horrifying, and all too revealing - sometimes all at once.

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Truthful-therefore morally courageous and intellectually rigorous. -- Norman Podhoretz
Dalrymple's vivid writing and often heartbreaking stories rise above his deeply felt social analysis. * Publishers Weekly *
Brilliant social analysis...a master chronicle of life at the bottom. -- Hilton Kramer
Lucid, unsentimental, and profoundly honest...Dalrymple is one of the great essayists of our age. -- Denis Dutton, Editor, Arts & Letters Daily
This devastating account and analysis of underclass life-and the elite ideas which support it-is a classic for our times. -- Thomas Sowell, Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
It is a truism that ideas have consequences, but a truism is rarely illustrated as implacably as in this book. -- George F. Will, syndicated columnist for The Washington Post
Theodore Dalrymple is the best doctor-writer since William Carlos Williams. -- Peggy Noonan
Mr. Daniels's best essays cast a spell almost from the opening line. * New York Sun *
A landmark experience is reading Life at the Bottom... * Detroit Free Press *
Once in a long while a writer comes along with a vision so powerful that it shakes you. Theodore Dalrymple is that kind of writer. -- Bruce Ramsey * Liberty Press *

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Introduction	p. vii
Grim Reality
The Knife Went In	p. 5
Goodbye, Cruel World	p. 15
Reader, She Married Him--Alas	p. 26
Tough Love	p. 36
It Hurts, Therefore I Am	p. 48
Festivity, and Menace	p. 58
We Don't Want No Education	p. 68
Uncouth Chic	p. 78
The Heart of a Heartless World	p. 89
There's No Damned Merit in It	p. 102
Choosing to Fail	p. 114
Free to Choose	p. 124
What Is Poverty?	p. 134
Do Sties Make Pigs?	p. 144
Lost in the Ghetto	p. 155
And Dying Thus Around Us Every Day	p. 167
Grimmer Theory
The Rush from Judgment	p. 181
What Causes Crime?	p. 195
How Criminologists Foster Crime	p. 208
Policemen in Wonderland	p. 221
Zero Intolerance	p. 233
Seeing Is Not Believing	p. 244
Index	p. 257
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Life at the Bottom : The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

At a Glance

Paperback

Industry Reviews

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

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