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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.
When Michael Harrington’s The Other America: Poverty in the United States first appeared in bookstores in March 1962, its author had modest hopes for its success, expecting to sell at most a few thousand copies.
27 de mar. de 2012 · Fifty years ago this month Michael Harrington wrote a book, The Other America: Poverty in the United States – a haunting tour of deprivation in an affluent society – that inspired Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to wage a war on poverty.
18 de may. de 2012 · Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson and Michael Harrington authored books that powerfully challenged the conventional wisdom about the environment and poverty, issues that had been ignored by most opinion-shapers and policy-makers at the time.
22 de mar. de 2012 · Fifty years ago (in March 1962) Michael Harrington wrote a book, “The Other America: Poverty in the United States” – a haunting tour of deprivation in an affluent society – that inspired Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to wage a war on poverty.
18 de dic. de 2013 · “The Other America” punctured the mood of postwar triumphalism, alerting the most affluent society in the world to the hidden, or, as Harrington put it, “segregated” poverty in its midst.
The Other America: Poverty in the United States is Michael Harrington's best known and likely most influential book. He was an American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, political theorist, professor of political science, radio commentator, and founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America .
