The Other America
Poverty in the United States
$50.92
- Paperback
252 pages
- Release Date
29 September 1998
Summary
In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s and ’80s as well as a new introduction by Harrington’s biographer, Maurice Isserman. This illuminating, profoundly moving classic is still all too relevant for today’s America.
When Michael Harrington’s masterpiece, The Other America, was first published in 1962, it was …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780684826783 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 068482678X |
| Author: | Michael Harrington |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 252 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 29 September 1998 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm x 18mm |
| Series: | A Touchstone book |
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Critics Review
The Other America is a “scream of rage, a call to conscience.” The New York Times Book Review
“An excellent book—and a most important one.” —The New Yorker “Mike Harrington has made more Americans more uncomfortable for more good reasons than any other person I know. For most people, that would be achievement enough. But for Mike it was only the beginning—because the more he saw that was wrong with America, the harder he fought to make it right.” —Senator Edward Kennedy “The Other America is a “scream of rage, a call to conscience.” —The New York Times Book Review
About The Author
Michael Harrington
Born in Missouri in 1928, Michael Harrington was a writer, political activist, theorist, professor, commentator, and founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America. During his time as editor for New America, he wrote his seminal text The Other America: Poverty in the United States, a bestseller that has been credited for sparking the War on Poverty. A frequent writer, Harrington wrote fifteen books and has had articles publishes in journals such as The New Republic and The Nation, among many others. He married in 1963 and had two children. He died in 1989.
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