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Loading... The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962)by Michael Harrington
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is a depressing read because it's nearly 60 years old and yet so much of it is still true. LBJ's War on Poverty did lessen poverty, especially amongst the elderly. But too many of us believe in Reagan's quip that "we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won"--cutting benefits and giving up. Harrington's book still articulates the problems with conservative thinking on poverty, and his analyses of rural areas and black poverty still have a great deal of truth today. no reviews | add a review
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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 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. He was determined to make poverty in the United States visible and his observations and analyses have had a profound effect on our country, radically changing how we view the poor and the policies we employ to help them. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.560973Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Class Lower, alienated, excluded classes History, geographic treatment, biographyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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which led to The War on Poverty.
It would have been great if it had succeeded. ( )