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Title: The Other America by Michael Harrington ISBN: 0-684-82678-X Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: THE POOR ARE WITH YOU ALWAYS...
Comment: This is the seminal work on the poor in America, analyzed within the context of government proffered, anti-poverty programs. It is a scathing critique and analysis of the war on poverty, where bold rhetoric and political grandstanding have often supplanted action. The author in his analysis categorizes poverty as a cultural and often institutional way of life that would require radical innovations, social planning, and long term financial investment, were the government really serious about eradicating poverty in America. What is amazing is that the arguments made by the author, when he wrote this book forty years ago, are still sound today.
Rating: 4
Summary: Ho Hum
Comment: This is a classic for sure but a classic of what? Most of the people Harrington writes about have created their own worlds and then populated them. Yes, we do feel sorry for the underprivileged but most people in America have the privilege of a free education, free libraries and free charity. If they fail, whose fault is it?
Rating: 1
Summary: Outdated
Comment: I was bored. I want real stories and examples. I read "There are no Children here" and loved it!!! I read somewhere that the author was inspired by this book, so I couldn't wait to get it. My guess is this author is a liberal, and not objective. The information was boring and one sided. I would have probably liked it more if the time frame was more current. I want to know more about today, not the 60's.
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Title: The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith ISBN: 0395925002 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Other American : The Life of Michael Harrington by Maurice Isserman ISBN: 1586480367 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Working Poor : Invisible in America by DAVID K. SHIPLER ISBN: 0375408908 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William Julius Wilson ISBN: 0226901319 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.03 |
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Title: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0393322572 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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