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PublisherPublic Affairs
ISBN-101891620304
ISBN-139781891620300
eBay Product ID (ePID)1646930
Product Key Features
Book TitleOther American : the Life of Michael Harrington
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicSocial Scientists & Psychologists, General, Political
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorMaurice Isserman
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight28.4 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-056654
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal300/.92 B
SynopsisMaurice Isserman's bracingly honest, surprisingly touching biography traces the life of one of the heroes of the American Left and one of that country's most influential social critics and poverty experts. Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal book on American poverty. Isserman expertly tracks Harrington's beginnings in the Catholic Worker movement, his abandonment of his once deeply-held Catholicism, his life in 1950s Greenwich Village, and his evolution as a thinker. Along the way Isserman dispels numerous myths, including several Harrington himself encouraged. And Isserman explains why Harrington, who more than any other single individual seemed perfectly positioned to play the role of adult mentor to the New Left in the 1960s, instead fell into disfavour with young campus activists, and lost the opportunity of a lifetime to make his democratic Socialist perspective a relevant force in American politics.
LC Classification NumberH59.H36I85 2000
