The Other American The Life Of Michael Harrington"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 Worke" |
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... city center of St. Louis.2 Edward Michael the younger would be known to his childhood friends as Ned , to college friends as Ed , and later , and to a wider world , as Michael or Mike . In the late winter of 1928 , when Michael was born ...
... city center of St. Louis.2 Edward Michael the younger would be known to his childhood friends as Ned , to college friends as Ed , and later , and to a wider world , as Michael or Mike . In the late winter of 1928 , when Michael was born ...
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... city's history , especially its frontier heritage . As the " gateway to the west , " the city's early years had been shaped by the clash of colonial ambitions and were redolent of the romance of fur trapping and mountain men , the ...
... city's history , especially its frontier heritage . As the " gateway to the west , " the city's early years had been shaped by the clash of colonial ambitions and were redolent of the romance of fur trapping and mountain men , the ...
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Maurice Isserman. neighborhood on the city's near north side that would become the center of a rapidly expanding Irish ... city of Cork . In earlier cen- turies the village had been Glanore , or " the golden glen , ” and was known for the ...
Maurice Isserman. neighborhood on the city's near north side that would become the center of a rapidly expanding Irish ... city of Cork . In earlier cen- turies the village had been Glanore , or " the golden glen , ” and was known for the ...
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... city of Cobh ) , Patrick reportedly obtained boat fare by selling two of his father's sheep.18 After arriving in New York , Patrick took a job shoveling snow . He was also able to attend several years of grade school before setting out ...
... city of Cobh ) , Patrick reportedly obtained boat fare by selling two of his father's sheep.18 After arriving in New York , Patrick took a job shoveling snow . He was also able to attend several years of grade school before setting out ...
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... city against the secessionists . Weydemeyer himself finally arrived in St. Louis as a colonel in the Union Army . When he wasn't occupied with military duties , he corresponded with Engels and handed out copies of Marx's inaugural ad ...
... city against the secessionists . Weydemeyer himself finally arrived in St. Louis as a colonel in the Union Army . When he wasn't occupied with military duties , he corresponded with Engels and handed out copies of Marx's inaugural ad ...
Contents
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FOUR The Life of a Saint 19511952 | 68 |
SEVEN The Man Who Discovered Poverty 19601964 | 175 |
EIGHT Sibling and Other Rivalries 19601965 | 221 |
NINE Socialists at War 19651972 | 256 |
ELEVEN Coming to an End 19811989 | 338 |
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Page 305 - The lower-class individual lives in the slum and sees little or no reason to complain. He does not care how dirty and dilapidated his housing is either inside or out, nor does he mind the inadequacy of such public facilities as schools, parks, and libraries: indeed, where such things exist he destroys them by acts of vandalism if he can. Features that make the slum repellent to others actually please him. He finds it satisfying in several ways. First, it is a place of excitement — "where the action...
Page 46 - The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which vudges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.
Page viii - Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians.
Page 195 - This book is a description of the world in which these people live; it is about the other America. Here are the unskilled workers, the migrant farm workers, the aged, the minorities, and all the others who live in the economic underworld of American life.
Page 413 - Laying stress upon importance of work has a greater effect than any other technique of living in the direction of binding the individual more closely to reality; in his work he is at least securely attached to a part of reality, the human community. Work is no less valuable for the opportunity it and the human relations connected with it provide for a very considerable discharge of libidinal component impulses, narcissistic, aggressive and even erotic, than because it is indispensable for subsistence...
Page 338 - I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else would lead you out.
Page 195 - Taken on the family level, it has the same quality. These are people who lack education and skill, who have bad health, poor housing, low levels of aspiration and high levels of mental distress. They are, in the language of sociology, "multiproblem
Page 105 - ... why" of its success or failure. The "why" which this essay proposes (with the usual genuflections to ceteris paribus), is that the failure of the socialist movement in the United States is rooted in its inability to resolve a basic dilemma of ethics and politics. The socialist movement, by its very statement of goal and in its rejection of the capitalist order as a whole, could not relate itself to the specific problems of social action in the here-and-now, give-and-take political world. It was...
Page viii - The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. It assumes that preparation against danger is in itself a good, and that men, like nations, are the better for staggering through life fully armed. The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks.