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The New American Poverty, by Michael Harrington (Holt, Rinehart, 271 pp., $17.95)

Michael Harrington, Scarsdale’s leading socialist, is back. Or rather, he has never left: The poverty expert ye have always with you. In The New American Poverty he tells of “structures of misery” that—needlessly —keep the poor poor.

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The New American Poverty, by Michael Harrington (Holt, Rinehart, 271 pp., $17.95)

Michael Harrington, Scarsdale’s leading socialist, is back. Or rather, he has never left: The poverty expert ye have always with you. In The New American Poverty he tells of “structures of misery” that—needlessly —keep the poor poor.