Free Press hardcover in dust jacket, 1986, first U.S. edition-1st printing, jacket price $17.95; unread and carefully stored, No marks/tears or other defects; Fine/Fine (like New). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble wrap the book and ship it in a New BOX- Not a plastic bag like the zombie sellers.

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Title: The Tears of the White Man: Compassion As Contempt
Publisher: Free Press
Publication Date: 1986
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0029041600
ISBN 13: 9780029041604
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine

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Argues that the Western nations romanticize even as they look down upon the Third World, examines examples of this patronizing attitude, and suggests a more productive approach for helping developing nations

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In this imaginatively argued essay Bruckner lambasts Western attitudes toward the Third World as being characterized by guilt, hypocrisy, and paternalism. Bruckner is exasperated by those who unquestioningly label the industrial nations "exploiters" and the underdeveloped countries "exploited." Further, he decries left-wing intellectuals' selective championing of Third World causes, and their attempts to mask realities that do not fit their personal ideology. Too often, insists Bruckner, we sentimentalize the Third World instead of subjecting it to rational analysis. A hard-hitting, important book. Ian Wallace, Agriculture Canada Lib., Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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