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Rated: 12 times. Average rating 5
Description
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.
If you liked this, you'll probably like:
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1987)
Books by Theodore Dalrymple:
- Not With a Bang But a Whimper (2010)
- Life at the Bottom (2001)
- Our Culture, What's Left of It (2007)
- Farewell Fear (2012)
