Books, Arts & Manners: Looking after the Underclass

The War against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy, by Herbert J. Gans (Basic, 195 pp., $22) Renewing American Compassion, by Marvin Olasky (Free Press, 195 pp., $20)

AT first look, it would be as easy to dismiss Herbert Gans’s The War against the Poor as tired liberal foolishness, while praising Marvin Olasky’s Renewing American Compassion as inspired.

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The War against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy, by Herbert J. Gans (Basic, 195 pp., $22) Renewing American Compassion, by Marvin Olasky (Free Press, 195 pp., $20)

AT first look, it would be as easy to dismiss Herbert Gans’s The War against the Poor as tired liberal foolishness, while praising Marvin Olasky’s Renewing American Compassion as inspired.