An edition of The tragedy of American compassion (1992)

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An edition of The tragedy of American compassion (1992)

The tragedy of American compassion

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This is a book of hope at a time when just about everyone but Marvin Olasky has lost hope. The topic is poverty and the underclass. The profound truth that Marvin Olasky forces us to confront is that the problems of the underclass are not caused by poverty. Some of them are exacerbated by poverty, but we know that they need not be caused by poverty, for poverty has been the condition of the vast majority of human communities since the dawn of history, and they have for the most part been communities of stable families, nurtured children, and low crime. It is wrong to think that writing checks will end the problems of the underclass, or even reduce them. - Preface.

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Crossway Books
Language
English
Pages
299

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Cover of: The tragedy of American compassion
The tragedy of American compassion
2008, Crossway Books
in English
Cover of: The tragedy of American compassion
The tragedy of American compassion
1995, Regnery Gateway, Distributed to the trade by National Book Network
p in English - 1st trade paperback ed.
Cover of: The tragedy of American compassion
The tragedy of American compassion
1995, Regnery Gateway, Distributed to the trade by National Book Network
in English - 1st trade paperback ed.
Cover of: The tragedy of American compassion
The tragedy of American compassion
1992, Regnery Gateway, Distributed to the trade by National Book Network
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The tragedy of American compassion
The tragedy of American compassion
1992, Crossway Books
in English

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Table of Contents

Forward
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Current Impasse
The Early American model of Compassion
Turning Cities into Countryside
First Challenge to the Charity
The Social Darwinist Threat
Proving Social Darwinism Wrong
The Seven Marks of Compassion
And Why Not Do More?
Excitement of a New Century
Selling New Deals, Old Wineskins
Revolution and its Heartbreak
Questions of the 1970s and the 1980s
Putting Compassion into practice
Applying History
Endnotes
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages xi-xii, 235-290) and index.

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Wheaton, Ill

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Dewey Decimal Class
362.5/8/0973
Library of Congress
HV4505 .O38 2008

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Pagination
xvii, 299 pages
Number of pages
299

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32148480M
Internet Archive
tragedyofamerica0000olas
ISBN 10
1433501104
ISBN 13
9781433501104
OCLC/WorldCat
220891207

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