Hard as it is to believe, it has been twenty-five years since Dalrymple’s most popular and celebrated book was published. And now, a special twenty-fifth anniversary edition, featuring a new foreword by Rob Henderson and a new postscript from the author, will be released on April 16. Dalrymple’s key insight remains as powerful as ever: that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values, continually reinforced by an elite culture searching for victims.
“A classic for our times. It is as fundamental for understanding the world we live in as the three R’s.” —Thomas Sowell