# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-harrington
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:49:59.439Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-harrington"
name: "Michael Harrington"
slug: "michael-harrington"
description: "Edward Michael Harrington Jr. was an American democratic socialist. As a writer, he was best known as the author of The Other America (1962). Harrington was also a political activist, theorist, professor of political science, and radio commentator. In 1982, he was a founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and its most influential early leader."
tagline: "American political writer (1928-1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Harrington%2C_cropped_(cropped)_(cropped1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-02-24"
deathDate: "1989-07-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.47
  momentum:             0.4270015698587127
  historical:           7.239112
  currentAttention:     7.76
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Harrington"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "مايكل هارينجتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harrington_(Politikwissenschaftler)"
    title: "Michael Harrington (Politikwissenschaftler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harrington"
    title: "Michael Harrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harrington"
    title: "Michael Harrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harrington"
    title: "Michael Harrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harrington"
    title: "Michael Harrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Майкл Гаррінгтон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434828"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump