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Tragedy of American Compassion

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ISBN-10: 089526725X

ISBN-13: 9780895267252

Edition: N/A

Authors: Marvin Olasky, Charles Murray

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A richly documented, controversial history of the welfare state.... --Publishers Weekly
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Publication date: 2/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 299
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Preface
Introduction: The Current Impasse
The Early American Model of Compassion
Turning Cities into Countryside
First Challenge to the Charity Consensus
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