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David J. Rothman

David J. Rothman is a member of the history jacuity at Columbia University and author of The Discovery of the Asylum : Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (Little, Brown, 1971).

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In a society grown steadily more affluent over two centuries, the existence of the poor has raised some baffling questions and surprising answers