Ebook: The other America: poverty in the United States

When this book was first published in 1962, it was hailed as an explosive work and became a galvanizing force for the War on Poverty. The author shed light on the lives of the poor- from farm to city- and the social forces that relegated them to poverty. He was determined to make poverty in the United States visible, and his observations and analyses have had a profound effect on our country- from how we view the poor to the policies implemented to fight poverty. In the fifty years since it was published, this book has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This book is still all too relevant for today's America.;Foreword to The other America / Maurice Isserman -- Introduction / Irving Howe -- The invisible land -- The rejects -- Pastures of plenty -- If you're black, stay back -- Three poverties -- The golden years -- The twisted spirit -- Old slums, new slums -- The two nations -- Appendix: Definitions -- Afterword : Poverty in the seventies -- Poverty and the eighties.