Whatâ (Tm)S Love Got to Do with It?

by David Wagner

Book Overview

Now available in paperback, What's Love Got to Do with It? is an insightful debunking of the way charitable giving disguises American neglect of the public welfare. Award-winning Professor of Social... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565846370
• ISBN13: 9781565846371
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent and incisive critique of American charity

David Wagner's book What's Love Got to Do With It, provides the reader to an insightful perspective on American charity. Penetrating the veneer of "do-gooderism," Wagner exposes the abuses, distortions and deliberate social control mechaisms that have been a part of the American charitable entrprise since its inception. This book is a must read for anyone involved in philanthopy, social welfare service provision, or social work education.

Baltimore Sun 2/6/00

"Wagner's book will be interesting reading for donors, policymakers and advocates for the poor...with charities' influence growing, the time is right to raise red flags -- and Wagner's (criticisms) are largely on target....His book attempts principally to raise questions in an unquestioning age."

from Frank Browning salon.com review

"Wagner's concise and vivid chronicle of the rise of paternalistic American charity is a valuable handbook for anyone who wants to challenge the duplicitous nostrums that the vapid stars of both political parties have lately offered up on everything from welfare to the widening class gap to the impoverishment of public education to the more and more degraded public-health system"