Published fifty years ago, Michael Harringtons The Other America provided a sweeping
description of poverty in the United States. Harrington is given credit for awakening the …

Michael Harrington's most famous appeal to the American conscience, The Other America,
was a short work (one hundred and eighty-six pages in the original edition) with a simple …

It is somehow an unfair task to write a review of this book. One should be able to read it as
one would listen to a sermon—not with the duty to ascertain the accuracy of the data …

This paper examines Robert Heilbroner's 1950 article in Harper's Magazine on poverty in
the USA. It argues that this piece was the first attempt to raise popular concerns about …

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 …

Selected as A Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Fifty years
after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he …

If there is a heaven, and it has a place for virtuous skeptics, I imagine Michael Harrington is
looking down, amused by the recent cover of Newsweek proclaiming,''We Are All Socialists …

Clara Miller, President of the FB Heron Foundation: The Alternative, is not only important
reading, it's imperative. Miller, a trained engineer, the one-time manager of a top social …

It's been exactly 50 years since Americans, or at least the non-poor among them,"
discovered" poverty, thanks to Michael Harrington's engaging book The Other America [3]. If …

Slightly more than 30 years ago, a book called" The Other America" endorsed the second
explanation of poverty--that the very existence of poverty in a nation of plenty could only be …