The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrington - Penguin, 1969

Name: The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrington - Penguin, 1969
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Title: The Other America
Author: Michael Harrington
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: 1969
Format: Softcover
Condition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear, pencil inscription and pencil underlines on first two pages and tanned pages.

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Reader's note

This 1969 edition of The Other America by Michael Harrington is a sad insight into the Poverty in the United States. 'There is a familiar America. it is celebrated in speeches and advertised on television and in the magazines. It has the highest mass standard of living the world has ever known. In the 1950s this America worried about itself, yet even its anxieties were products of abundance. The title of a brilliant book was widely misinterpreted, and the familiar America began to call itself 'the affluent society'. There was introspection about Madison Avenue and tail fins; there was discussion of the emotional suffering taking place in the suburbs. In all this, there was an implicit assumption that the basic grinding economic problems had been solved in the United States. In this theory the nation's problems were no longer a matter of basic human needs, of food, shelter, and clothing. how they were seeing as qualitative, a question of learning to live decently amid luxury. While this discussion was carried on, there existed another America. In it dwelt somewhere between 40- 50,000,000 citizens and they were poor...' and they still are today, except the number is most likely quadrupled.

The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrington - Penguin, 1969

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