Ivan R. Dee
Pages: 256
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-56663-505-9 • Paperback • March 2003 • $16.95 • (£12.99)
978-1-61578-019-8 • eBook • March 2003 • $15.99 • (£11.99)
Truthful—therefore morally courageous and intellectually rigorous.
— Norman Podhoretz
Dalrymple's vivid writing and often heartbreaking stories rise above his deeply felt social analysis.
— Publishers Weekly
Brilliant social analysis...a master chronicle of life at the bottom.
— Hilton Kramer
Lucid, unsentimental, and profoundly honest...Dalrymple is one of the great essayists of our age.
— Denis Dutton, Editor, Arts & Letters Daily
This devastating account and analysis of underclass life—and the elite ideas which support it—is a classic for our times.
— Thomas Sowell, Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
It is a truism that ideas have consequences, but a truism is rarely illustrated as implacably as in this book.
— George F. Will, Washington Post columnist
Theodore Dalrymple is the best doctor-writer since William Carlos Williams.
— Peggy Noonan
Mr. Daniels's best essays cast a spell almost from the opening line.
— New York Sun
A landmark experience is reading Life at the Bottom…
— Detroit Free Press
Once in a long while a writer comes along with a vision so powerful that it shakes you. Theodore Dalrymple is that kind of writer.
— Bruce Ramsey; Liberty Press
What it's like and why they stay there