What Michael Harrington thinks about America

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Socialist writer (1928 to 1989) whose The Other America (1962) showed that tens of millions of Americans lived in a poverty the affluent majority could not see, and helped prompt the War on Poverty.

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2 dated positions, c. 1962, in their own words. Our reading of what Michael Harrington has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 1962

   Our readingThe America of poverty is more hidden than it has ever been

   Their wordsThe other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before.

   ↗The Other America (Penguin, 1968 printing of the 1962 book)archive.org All 4 from this book

3. c. 1962

   Our readingBeing poor is not only material deprivation but a futile universe within America

   Their wordsTo be poor is not simply to be deprived of the material things of this world. It is to enter a fatal, futile universe, an America within America with a twisted spirit.

   ↗The Other America (Penguin, 1968 printing of the 1962 book)archive.org All 4 from this book