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Michael Harrington

Written by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated August 2025
Written by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated August 2025

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Michael Harrington was an American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, and academic known for his influential work on poverty in the United States. His book "The Other America: Poverty in the United States" helped spark the War on Poverty in the 1960s.

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