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Life at the Bottom : The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple (2003, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherDee Publisher, Ivan R.
ISBN-101566635055
ISBN-139781566635059
eBay Product ID (ePID)2462278
Product Key Features
Book TitleLife at the Bottom : the Worldview That Makes the Underclass
Number of Pages284 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicDiscrimination & Race Relations, Poverty & Homelessness, Penology, World, Europe / General, Criminology
FeaturesReprint
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorTheodore Dalrymple
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsThis devastating account and analysis of underclass life "and the elite ideas which support it "is a classic for our times., Dalrymple's vivid writing and often heartbreaking stories rise above his deeply felt social analysis., Dalrymple "s vivid writing and often heartbreaking stories rise above his deeply felt social analysis., This devastating account and analysis of underclass life--and the elite ideas which support it--is a classic for our times., "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, 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, 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., It is a truism that ideas have consequences, but a truism is rarely illustrated as implacably as in this book.
Dewey Decimal362.2/086/9420941
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisThis 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., Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. Yet in listening to and observing his patients, he is continually astonished by the latest twist of depravity that exceeds even his own considerable experience. Dalrymple's key insight in Life at the Bottom 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. This culture persuades those at the bottom that they have no responsibility for their actions and are not the molders of their own lives. Drawn from the pages of the cutting-edge political and cultural quarterly City Journal, Dalrymple's book draws upon scores of eye-opening, true-life vignettes that are by turns hilariously funny, chillingly horrifying, and all too revealing-sometimes all at once. And Dalrymple writes in prose that transcends journalism and achieves the quality of literature., A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist., Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. Yet in listening to and observing his patients, he is continually astonished by the latest twist of depravity that exceeds even his own considerable experience. Dalrymple's key insight in Life at the Bottom 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. This culture persuades those at the bottom that they have no responsibility for their actions and are not the molders of their own lives. Drawn from the pages of the cutting-edge political and cultural quarterly City Journal , Dalrymple's book draws upon scores of eye-opening, true-life vignettes that are by turns hilariously funny, chillingly horrifying, and all too revealing-sometimes all at once. And Dalrymple writes in prose that transcends journalism and achieves the quality of literature.
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