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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.… (meer)
As important today, or possibly more so, than when it was written over fifty years ago. Any outrage over the shocking numbers inside can only be multiplied today by the sheer fact of national avoidance of the problem. ( )
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. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The Invisible Land. There is a familiar America....It has the highest mass standard of living the world has ever known.... The millions who are poor in the United States tend to become increasingly invisible.
When Michael Harrington's The Other America began to win a large audience after its publication in 1952, both he and his friends were very much surprised. I remember thinking that Mike's book, fine as it was, would probably be numbered along those "worthy" publications that sell four or five thousand copies and then fade away. Such has been the fate of many serious books in earlier years, and such would be the fate of many serious book in later years. But when Mike's book took off, that seemed a modest signal that fundamental changes were starting to occur in this country. We now began to think that the years of conservative doldrums in which the Cold War had dominated political life were coming to an end -Introduction, Irving Howe
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 Instead the book proved a publishing phenomenon, garnering substantial sales (70,000 in several editions within the first year, and more than a million in paperback since then), wife and respectful critical attention, and a significant influence over the direction of social welfare policy in the United States during the decade that followed. -Foreword to The Other America, Maurice Isserman
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
How long shall we look the other way while our fellow human beings suffer? How long?
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.
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which led to The War on Poverty.
It would have been great if it had succeeded. (