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Title: Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple ISBN: 1-56663-505-5 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.68 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: LOOK, THINK, JUDGE
Comment: This is one of those books that should be required reading before anyone in the United States is given a high school diploma. Just as Dalrymple has changed the lives of many in the white underclass world that he works in, so might this book make many immature people SEE the world around them with the blinders taken off. The ultimate results of failing to THINK and above all to JUDGE the world are illustrated with terrifying reality. This collection of essays deals with the white underclass in Britain but makes points that obviously apply to our own American underclass as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Useful Evidence
Comment: Dalrymple has written a book in simple, direct prose that every conservative should read. The suggestion that ideas have consequences, and that the left-liberal intellectual establishment excepts itself from any but the ornamental adoption of these ideas, is not just deeply unpopular but completely ignored by the media and the educational establishment. In short, behaviors that work fine for the priviliged (the educated, the financially secure, the intelligent, and the focussed) are a disaster for the underclass.
And, to be frank, don't always have benign results for the priviliged, either. One of the most appalling effects of turning 50 is the sheer weight of accumulated anecdotal evidence that, as it was once put, that "the wages of sin are death". Or perhaps more mordantly by parents everywhere, "You fool around and fool around and someone always gets hurt."
I look forward to reading more of Theodore Dalrymple's work. Not only can he write with pungency and style, but he tells stories that need to be told anew, since Aesop and Plutarch have gone out of fashion.
And I hope he survives the rigors of his profession.
Rating: 3
Summary: Accurate Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
Comment: "Life at the Bottom" is a devastating critique of an empty liberalism and spurious leftism which denies all agency to the
ghetto poor. As someone who lives and works among the same group, I can testify Darylmple writes with both poignancy and spot-on accuracy. But his ideological grind - a trait other reviews have justifiably drawn attention to - circumvents a deeper analysis and in the end, wipes out his underlying argument.
For example, if the welfare state is such a singular culprit, why is that Sweden, with a much more encompassing public welfare policy than either the U.S. or U.K., has little if any of the social pathology described here? If the thesis of social pathology due to dependency presented in "Life at the Bottom" holds true, than it would be logical that Sweden would have more and not less of it.
The truth is that culture, especially including the market values conservatives triumph so loudly, is equally culprit. Once again, traditional left and right fault lines have to be transcended if
an honest inquiry is to be accomplished.
Like many politically correct conservatives, Darylmple is content to cut off such inquiry at the exact point when we should be pressing forward.
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Title: Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism by Joshua Muravchik ISBN: 1893554457 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: A History of the American People by Paul M. Johnson ISBN: 0060930349 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Modern Times Revised Edition : World from the Twenties to the Nineties, The by Paul M. Johnson ISBN: 0060935502 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Myths That Divide Us: How Lies Have Poisoned American Race Relations, Second Edition by John Perazzo ISBN: 0965126811 Publisher: World Studies Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First by Mona Charen ISBN: 0895261391 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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