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Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

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Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass - Dalrymple, Theodore
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This is a searing 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. Dr. Dalrymple's key insight is that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values.

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    • Title: Life at the Bottom by Dalrymple, Theodore
    • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
    • Print ISBN: 9781566635059, 1566635055
    • Edition: 2003
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    • Title: Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple
    • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
    • Print ISBN: 9781566633826, 1566633826
    • eText ISBN: 9781615780198
    • Edition: 2001
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Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

2003, Trade paperback

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9781566635059

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

2001, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9781566633826

Books by Theodore Dalrymple

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Toutefemme

Mar 1, 2012

Incredible.

This is one of the best social commentaries I have ever read. I actually bought this copy to send to friends and in-laws. It's entertaining and terrifying-- truly shows the dangers presented by the welfare state and the dangers of misplaced middle class guilt on the underclass. For the anglophiles among us, beware--- this book will make you weep for the Britain that existed before WWI.

read335

Dec 6, 2008

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How does socialism create a moral and spiritual poverty? Is it possible that those who have material basic necessities can be more impoverished than those suffering disease, hunger, and cold in third-world countries? Let Theodore Dalrymple's gripping observations open your eyes to the destruction being wrought in inner-city England, and by application, America.

meritas

May 20, 2007

Significant, Important and depressing

Dr. Dahlrymple records his impressions and analyses of life with the underclsass in Londonistan. His observations hold true for the US - perhaps with a small time delay.

Bizlaw

May 17, 2007

Accurate, well written

Nicely done, very accurate. He's been there in the trenches so the insights are real, not from a distant academic.

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