Full name: The Other America: Poverty in the United States

Author: Michael Harrington Year: 1962 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Non Fiction, History, Economics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780684826783 068482678X

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. Similar books: The Working Poor by David K. Shipler Regulating the Poor by Frances Fox Piven No Shame in My Game by Katherine S. Newman The Great Disruption by Francis Fukuyama The American Way of Poverty by Sasha Abramsky Poor People's Movements by Frances Fox Piven $2.00 a Day by Kathryn Edin Coming Apart by Charles Murray When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein The Establishment by Owen Jones The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan Blowout by Rachel Maddow Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano Chavs by Owen Jones No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein Hidden Agendas by John Pilger How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney The New Road to Serfdom by Daniel Hannan