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- Title: Michael Harrington and the "Left Wing of the Possible" (Biography)
- Author : Gary Dorrien
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 113 KB
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Nearly a hundred times per year for over thirty years, Michael Harrington heard himself introduced before he launched into an earnest, learned, humorous, sometimes rhetorically scintillating speech on some aspect of his democratic socialist politics. Gifted with charm and a quick wit, he was adept at handling hecklers; the low point of these events, from his perspective, usually came during the introduction. Nearly always he was described as "the author of The Other America, the book that sparked the War on Poverty," while his other books got short shrift. Harrington was too affable to admonish a welcoming host, but these introductions were hard to bear. Sometimes he reintroduced himself. "I've written quite a few books since The Other America, some of which might interest you," he would say. His major works were very important to him, and The Other America was not one of them. He could see his epitaph in the making: "Wrote The Other America, downhill after that." That, indeed, is how Harrington is usually remembered. He usually gets a page or two in books on the Johnson administration and a brief mention in books on the Civil Rights movement, but as American socialism gets few books of any kind, the rest of his work is downgraded or forgotten. Even Maurice Isserman's otherwise splendid biography of Harrington, The Other American, says almost nothing about the aspect of his career that mattered most to him. (1)
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