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31 de jul. de 2018 · When Michael Harrington worked in the Catholic Worker movement as a 23 - year-old in the early ’ 50 s, young staffers used to joke that they were in pursuit of sainthood. Harrington came close ...
1 de ago. de 1997 · When Michael Harrington’s masterpiece, The Other America, was first published in 1962, it was hailed as an explosive work and became a galvanizing force for the war on poverty. Harrington shed light on the lives of the poor—from farm to city—and the social forces that relegated them to their difficult situations.
31 de jul. de 2019 · Michael Harrington, who kept the idea and promise of democratic socialism alive and relevant in a time when the world was moving to the right, died of esophageal cancer on July 31, 1989. He’d spent his final months writing the last of his sixteen books — an account of the global corporate autocracy he feared would dominate the twenty-first ...
Mike Harrington es un programador informático y empresario estadounidense. Es cofundador de la empresa de desarrollo y distribución digital de videojuegos Valve . Anteriormente programador de juegos en Dynamix y diseñador del sistema operativo Windows NT en Microsoft , Harrington fundó Valve en 1996 con Gabe Newell , otro exempleado de Microsoft.
22 de mar. de 2012 · The conference, titled “The Other America Then and Now,” marks the 50th anniversary of Holy Cross alumnus Michael Harrington’s “The Other America,” a seminal book on poverty in the United States that is said to have inspired President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty and other social reforms of the 1960s. “Harrington’s book ...
23 de feb. de 2015 · Michael Harrington (Bob Adelman) Michael Harrington was one of the U.S.’s leading socialists and a founder of Democratic Socialists of America. On the anniversary of his birthday, we pause to recognize his contributions. By Maurice Isserman In a lifetime of political engagement, Michael Harrington must have given ten thousand speeches, and of those, probably a…
Michael Harrington est né à Saint-Louis dans le Missouri. Il étudie à la Saint Louis University High School, au Collège de la Sainte-Croix, à l' université de Chicago et à la Yale Law School. Jeune homme, il s'intéresse à la fois à l'idéologie de gauche et au catholicisme. Hésitant, il rejoint tout d'abord le Mouvement catholique ...
