If you haven't read his books Evicted, and Poverty, by America, you owe it to yourself to do that. They're revealing, important works that shed light on the lived experience of many, many Americans.

When President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in the 1960s, he pledged to eliminate poverty in America. But more than five decades, several welfare programs, and $25 trillion later ...

Mr. Hunter's book on our National poverty, therefore, is a timely one. It comes to correct and moderate our jubilation; to point us to the grizzly Shape that follows in the track of Prosperity.