The tragedy of American compassion
By: Marvin Olasky
Publisher: Crossway Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Wheaton, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781433501104
Subjects: Homelessness; History; Social work with the homeless; Charities; Caring
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages xi-xii, 235-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Forward; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: The Current Impasse; title: The Early American model of Compassion; title: Turning Cities into Countryside; title: First Challenge to the Charity; title: The Social Darwinist Threat; title: Proving Social Darwinism Wrong; title: The Seven Marks of Compassion; title: And Why Not Do More?; title: Excitement of a New Century; title: Selling New Deals, Old Wineskins; title: Revolution and its Heartbreak; title: Questions of the 1970s and the 1980s; title: Putting Compassion into practice; title: Applying History; title: Endnotes; title: Index.