The rich and the rest of us : a poverty manifesto

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The authors re-examine our assumptions about poverty in America--what it really is and how to eliminate it now. Full description

Summary:	The authors re-examine our assumptions about poverty in America--what it really is and how to eliminate it now.
Physical Description:	222 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-218).
ISBN:	9781401940638 (tradepaper) 1401940633 (tradepaper)
Author Notes:	Professor, writer, and civil rights activist Cornel West was born on June 2, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and raised in Sacramento. He graduated from Harvard University in 1973 with an M.A. and later taught African-American studies there. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Haverford College, and Princeton University, the latter as professor of religion and director of African-American studies. West earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1980. He has written more than twenty books, including Race Matters and Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America. (Bowker Author Biography)