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Life at the Bottom

The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

Theodore Dalrymple

A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist.
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Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 256 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-56663-505-9 • Paperback • March 2003 • $16.95 • (£12.99)
978-1-61578-019-8 • eBook • March 2003 • $15.99 • (£11.99)
Subjects: Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness, History / Europe / General, History / World, Political Science / General, Political Science / Political Economy, Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy, Social Science / General
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 columnist


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


What it's like and why they stay there

Life at the Bottom

The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

Cover Image
Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist.
Details
Details
  • Ivan R. Dee
    Pages: 256 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-1-56663-505-9 • Paperback • March 2003 • $16.95 • (£12.99)
    978-1-61578-019-8 • eBook • March 2003 • $15.99 • (£11.99)
    Subjects: Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness, History / Europe / General, History / World, Political Science / General, Political Science / Political Economy, Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy, Social Science / General
Reviews
Reviews
  • 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 columnist


    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


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Features
  • What it's like and why they stay there

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