Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass,9781566633826

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

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ISBN13: 9781566633826
ISBN10: 1566633826
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-10-01
Publisher(s): Natl Book Network
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Summary

Theodore Dalrymple argues 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.

Author Biography

Theodore Dalrymple is a physician and psychiatrist who practices in England. He writes a column for the London Spectator, contributes frequently to the Daily Telegraph, and is a contributing editor of the Manhattan's Institute's City Journal

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
GRIM REALITY
The Knife Went In
5(10)
Goodbye, Cruel World
15(11)
Reader, She Married Him--Alas
26(10)
Tough Love
36(12)
It Hurts, Therefore I Am
48(10)
Festivity, and Menace
58(10)
We don't want no Education
68(10)
Uncouth Chic
78(11)
The Heart of a Heartless World
89(13)
There's No Damned Merit in It
102(12)
Choosing to Fail
114(10)
Free to Choose
124(10)
What Is Poverty?
134(10)
Do Sties Make Pigs?
144(11)
Lost in the Ghetto
155(12)
And Dying Thus around Us Every Day
167(14)
GRIMMER THEORY
The Rush from Judgment
181(14)
What Causes Crime
195(13)
How Criminologists Foster Crime
208(13)
Policemen in Wonderland
221(12)
Zero Intolerance
233(11)
Seeing Is Not Believing
244(13)
Index 257

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