The Tragedy of American Compassion
by Olasky, MarvinEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1995-02-01
Publisher(s): Regnery Pub
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Summary
A richly documented, controversial history of the welfare state.... --Publishers Weekly
Author Biography
Marvin Olasky is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute and the author of twenty-eight books, including The Tragedy of American Compassion and Lament for a Father. From 1983 through 2021 he was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the editor in chief of WORLD. He and his wife, Susan, have four sons.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction: The Current Impasse | p. 3 |
| The Early American Model of Compassion | p. 6 |
| Turning Cities into Countryside | p. 24 |
| First Challenge to the Charity Consensus | p. 42 |
| The Social Darwinist Threat | p. 60 |
| Proving Social Darwinism Wrong | p. 80 |
| The Seven Marks of Compassion | p. 99 |
| And Why Not Do More? | p. 116 |
| Excitement of a New Century | p. 134 |
| Selling New Deals, Old Wineskins | p. 151 |
| Revolution--and Its Heartbreak | p. 167 |
| Questions of the 1970s and the 1980s | p. 184 |
| Putting Compassion into Practice | p. 200 |
| Applying History | p. 217 |
| Endnotes | p. 235 |
| Index | p. 291 |
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