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| − | '''Michael Harrington''' (1928 - 1989) was a socialist activist, member of the [[League for Industrial Democracy]], and generally credited with inspiring [[LBJ]]'s [[Great Society|War on Poverty]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kurtz|first=Stanley|title=Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2010|pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Horowitz|first=David|title=The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2006|pages=85}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ |title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty |work=Washington Post |date=January 8, 2014 |quote="Many historians, such as Harrington biographer Maurice Isserman, credit Harrington and the book [The Other America] (which John F. Kennedy purportedly read while in office, along with the MacDonald review) with spurring Kennedy and then Johnson to formulate an anti-poverty agenda" }}</ref> | + | '''Michael Harrington''' (1928 - 1989) was a socialist activist, member of the [[League for Industrial Democracy]], and generally credited with inspiring [[LBJ]]'s [[Great Society|War on Poverty]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kurtz|first=Stanley|title=Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2010|pages=31}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Horowitz|first=David|title=The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2006|pages=85}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-war-on-poverty/ |title=Everything you need to know about the war on poverty |work=Washington Post |date=January 8, 2014 |quote="Many historians, such as Harrington biographer Maurice Isserman, credit Harrington and the book [The Other America] (which John F. Kennedy purportedly read while in office, along with the MacDonald review) with spurring Kennedy and then Johnson to formulate an anti-poverty agenda" }}</ref> |
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Revision as of 16:48, June 24, 2016
Michael Harrington (1928 - 1989) was a socialist activist, member of the League for Industrial Democracy, and generally credited with inspiring LBJ's War on Poverty.[1][2][3]
References
- ↑ Kurtz, Stanley (2010). Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism. Simon and Schuster, 31.
- ↑ Horowitz, David (2006). The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party. Simon and Schuster, 85.
- ↑ Everything you need to know about the war on poverty. Washington Post (January 8, 2014). “"Many historians, such as Harrington biographer Maurice Isserman, credit Harrington and the book [The Other America] (which John F. Kennedy purportedly read while in office, along with the MacDonald review) with spurring Kennedy and then Johnson to formulate an anti-poverty agenda"”