The Other America: Poverty in the United States

by Michael Harrington

Overview

This illuminating, profoundly moving classic is still all too relevant for today's America. For the first time, this edition contains both of Michael Harrington's additional essays on poverty in the seventies and eighties as well as a new introduction by bestselling author Irving Howe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140213089
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/30/1971
Series:	Pelican Series
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 5.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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, The Nation, and many others. He married in 1963 and had two children. He died in 1989.

Editorial Reviews

**** Reprint of the 1981 edition. The 1962 original is endorsed by BCL3. New introduction by Irving Howe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

“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

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