Michael Harrington

For all the rhetoric of recent years about the war on poverty, the poor in America are almost as numerous as ever. Half of them are young, and unless the government makes immensely greater commitments of resources and planning, the country is doomed to a social explosion in the seventies that will make the turbulent sixties seem tranquil by comparison. So says the author of “The Other America” and “Toward a Democratic Left” in this disturbing analysis.

If Paul Goodman is the aging lion of American radicalism, Michael Harrington, at thirty-seven, is the most risible of his likely successors. THE OTHER AMERICA. Harrington’s derastating examination of America’s poor, is mandatory for field workers in the war on poverty; his new book, THE ACCIDENTAL CENTURY,will be published this month.