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Maurice Isserman
Maurice Isserman

Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, was a symposium speaker at the official opening of the Michael Harrington papers at NYU's Tamiment Library on Thursday, Nov. 15. He spoke along with Todd Gitlin of Columbia University and syndicated Washington Post columnist and Brookings Institution fellow E.J. Dionne.

Isserman's book, The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington, has been named to many non-fiction "must-read" lists. Harrington was the most prominent American socialist intellectual and political leader of the latter half of the twentieth century. He is best known as the author of The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962) which was widely credited with setting the agenda for the War on Poverty during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Harrington was also a founder and leader of Democratic Socialists of America, the U.S. affiliate to the Socialist International.

The Harrington Papers include Harrington's political and literary correspondence, manuscripts and reading notebooks on the works of Marx, Hegel, Continental and ancient Greek philosophy, current economic and social conditions, political economy and theory, theology, and American and European literature.

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