Do-gooders : how liberals hurt those they claim to help--and the rest of us / Mona Charen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charen, Mona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social problems--United States.

Social problems.

Liberalism.

United States.

Liberalism--United States.

United States--Social policy.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 269 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Sentinel, 2004.

Summary:

Liberals from Washington, D.C., to Hollywood, from our major news organizations to our leading universities, are convinced that they know what's best for America's poor and middle class. And they are equally convinced that anyone who disagrees with them isn't just wrong, but morally inferior, cold hearted ... and maybe even evil.

But consider the mess liberals have made of education, race relations, crime, welfare, homelessness, and just about every other domestic issue over the past four decades. It's a wonder they're still so smug and self-righteous.

Bestelling author and columnist Mona Charen now offers a comprehensive look at the harm that liberal dogooders have wrought on those they're trying to help-and those of us footing the huge bill for their "big-heartedness." She shines the spotlight of truth on the nation's best-known-and most dangerous-do-gooders: Michael Moore, Al Sharpton, and Susan Sarandon, for their harebrained stands on crime; Jesse Jackson, Al Franken, John Kerry, Maureen Dowd, and Spike Lee, for their pontifications on racial strife; Bill Moyers, Dan Rather, Patricia Ireland, Katie Couric, and Ted Kennedy, for their groundless opposition to welfare reform; Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dworkin, Katha Pollitt, Eleanor Clift, and Hillary Clinton, for preaching their brand of "family values."

From the NAACP to the ACLU, from congressional Democrats to leaders of the unions, from network news anchors to clueless academics, Mona Charen holds the do-gooders accountable for their bad ideas, and refuses to let them hide from the real world facts that disprove their naive theories.

As she writes in her introduction: "This book is a chronicle of failure-the failure of liberals to help those they set out to help. But it is also a moral challenge. Liberals must be called to account for the real havoc they have created in so many lives. They must be asked to offer something more than good intentions when their actions lead to disaster."

Contents:

Judge not : how liberalism created the crime wave

Stoking fear and hatred in the name of racial sensitivity

The promise of compassion : the reality of degradation through welfare

Rewarding the worst families and discouraging the best

The "Grate" society : how liberalism created homelessness

The liberal war on rigor and patriotism in America's classrooms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-260) and index.

ISBN:

1595230033

OCLC:

56531382