| arrington, the most eminent social critic, activist and socialist in this country,examines the theory and practice of American economic policy, the history andstrttcture of imperialism, the problem of global hunger--and brings statisticsalive with personal observations and feelings just as he entered them into thejournals he kept as he traveled in the Third World or met some leaders there andat the United Nations. Harrington speaks to the American heart as well as itsmind in this important study, which might be called "passionately objective ": "We the people of America are, in our cruel innocence, at the very center ofthe system; we, the most decisive power in the world, must change from withintoo. We could, if we wanted to. If we do not, that will not signify a tragedy. Itwill be a crime against billions of men, women and children, including hundredsof millions of the halt, the blind and the maimed." The book concludes withsome positive proposals for the alleviation of the miseries of the vast majority,as recorded ill this lucid and eloquent report. Michael Harrington is the distinguished author of The Other America, aclassic work on poverty in the United States, The Accidental Century and TheTwilight of Capitalism. An activist in social movements for more than twenty- |
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