
Can a man be content with a piece of bread and some change tossed his way from a passerby? Today's modern welfare state expects he can. Those who control the money in our society think that giving a dollar at the train station and then appropriating a billion dollars for...

"A richly documented, controversial history of the welfare state...." --Publishers Weekly


A richly documented, controversial history of the welfare state.... --Publishers Weekly

A richly documented, controversial history of the welfare state.... --Publishers Weekly

William J. Bennett once called it the most important book on welfare and social policy in a decade. Period. It influenced the Clinton Administration's welfare reform and deeply affected then-Governor George W. Bush's policies in Texas. But with the war on terror, the ideas...