The Other America: Poverty in the United States

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The Other America: Poverty in the United States

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 Harringtonâ€™s essays on poverty in the 1970s and â€™80s as well as a new introduction by Harringtonâ€™s biographer, Maurice Isserman. This illuminating, profoundly moving classic is still all too relevant for todayâ€™s America.

When Michael Harringtonâ€™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 poorâ€”from farm to cityâ€”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.

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