A review by melissabee
The People of the Abyss by Jack London, Nonfiction, Social Issues, Homelessness & Poverty by Jack London

4.0

Powerful and passionate, though not perfect (too much sweeping generalizing, and I find London's personality grating and self-congratulatory). I read this partly to remind myself of what a world with no social support, healthcare, or care for the old is like, as our country gets closer to becoming such a world again. I used to think that people would not take away, for example, food and healthcare from children, but history (and recent history at that) shows that governments are perfectly capable of letting children (and many others) die in the streets. Everyone should read this.