Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: O'Connor, Alice | Copyright information

Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1825-2000. By Joel Schwartz (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. xxii plus 353 pp. $39.95).

Joel Schwartz's book is a work of historical revisionism with a decidedly contemporary aim: to restore old-fashioned moral uplift as the first and best, if not the only, line of defense against poverty in current-day policy. To do this, Schwartz endeavors to redeem the reputations of leading 19th-century...

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