CONTENTS

Preface

1. The Undeserving Poor: Morals, Culture, and Biology

2. Poverty and the Politics of Liberation

3. Intellectual Foundations of the War on Poverty and Great Society

4. Interpretations of Poverty in the Conservative Ascendance

5. The Rise and Fall of the “Underclass”

Epilogue: What Kind of a Problem Is Poverty?

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index