The other American : the life of Michael Harrington

The other American : the life of Michael Harrington / Maurice Isserman.

Explains why Michael Harrington fell into disfavor among young campus activists and how he lost the opportunity to make his democratic socialist perspective a relevant force in American politics. Isserman expertly tracks Harrington's beginnings in the Catholic Worker movement, his abandonment o...

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Main Author: Isserman, Maurice
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, c2000.
Subjects:
Harrington, Michael, > 1928-1989.
Social scientists > United States > Biography.
Political scientists > United States > Biography.
Socialists > United States > Biography.
Holy Cross Note:Rehm copy signed by the author.
Speakers & Fellows Collection
Table of Contents:
  • Community, Family, and Faith, 1928-1944
  • Leaving Home, 1944-1947
  • "An Awful Lot of Soul-Searching," 1947-1950
  • The Life of a Saint, 1951-1952
  • Resolute Waiting, 1952-1956
  • A Premature Sixties Radical, 1956-1960
  • The Man Who Discovered Poverty, 1960-1964
  • Sibling and Other Rivalries, 1960-1965
  • Socialists at War, 1965-1972
  • Starting Over, 1973-1980
  • Coming to an End, 1981-1989.

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