Michael Harrington
Edward Michael Harrington (
February 24,
1928 -
July 31,
1989) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He wrote The Other America (ISBN 068482678X) in 1962, a book about poverty in the United States that had an impact on the
Kennedy administration, and on
Lyndon Johnson's subsequent
War on Poverty. He was probably the most well-known socialist in the United States during his lifetime, a status he once compared to being "the tallest building in
Topeka, Kansas." He was one of the founders of the
Democratic Socialists of America.