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Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America’s Urban Poor, 1825–2000
In the introduction to this book Joel Schwartz calls our attention to the titles of two major pieces of antipoverty legislation. The War on Poverty was ushered in by...
The Justice in Just War
Morality and Contemporary Warfare by james turner johnson yale university press, 259 pages, $25 The average person has every reason to approach somewhat skeptically books with titles like Morality...