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Scribner, August 1997
Trade Paperback, 252 pages
ISBN-10: 068482678X
ISBN-13: 9780684826783
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Browse Inside The Other America“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
New York Times, March 2, 2012
...and the rule of law. Overlooked in the debate, however, is the role that an earlier book by Michael Harrington, a young Socialist intellectual whose views differed radically from Mr. Murrays played in framing, and bringing to the forefront, ...
Forward, February 21, 2012
...comprehension. One blockbuster can change history. In the 1960s, best-sellers launched liberal crusades: the war on poverty in Michael Harrington’s 1962 “The Other America,” environmentalism in Rachel Carson’s 1962 “Silent ...
Forward, February 21, 2012
...comprehension. One blockbuster can change history. In the 1960s, best-sellers launched liberal crusades: the war on poverty in Michael Harrington’s 1962 “The Other America,” environmentalism in Rachel Carson’s 1962 “Silent ...
Daily Lobo, August 30, 2011
...were inside Dr. King’s inner circle in the fight for racial justice. In the 60s, the socialist Michael Harrington’s book, The Other America, played a pivotal role in focusing the national dialogue on the nation’s poor and led the ...
World Socialist Web Site, August 27, 2011
...the coming winter. In eastern Kentucky, a state of virtual civil war existed between miners and coal operators. Michael Harrington’s The Other America appeared, documenting the persistence of social misery in the US. Of all this—which ...
St. Petersburg Times, August 22, 2009
...need me to be itself,' Vollmann insists, but no one who reads this singular, significant book ? half Michael Harrington's The Other America, half James Joyce's Finnegans Wake ? will contemplate NAFTA, illegal immigration or a trip to a ...
Hamilton, June 22, 2009
...On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the publishing of Michael Harrington's article 'Our Fifty Million Poor' in Commentary magazine (a liberal journal of the time), James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman wrote an essay ...
