TRAGEDY OF AMERICAN COMPASSION

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

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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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