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The other American
the life of Michael Harrington
By Isserman, Maurice
- ISBN
- 978-1-89162-030-0
- Publisher
- New York : PublicAffairs, c2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2000
Michael Harrington (1928-89), easily the most prominent non-Stalinist American Marxist of the post-World War II era, achieved his fame with The Other America in 1962. That book influenced Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty and provided a powerful subtext to Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign. In this study, Isserman (Hamilton Coll.)--a historian of the American Left and author of If I Had a Hammer and (with Michael Kazin) Am...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
