The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington, by Maurice Isserman (Public Affairs, 449 pp., $28.50)
INTRODUCING Michael Harrington on Firing Line, William F. Buckley Jr. once quipped that being a socialist in America is akin to being the tallest skyscraper in Kansas. If so, then Harrington was like the World Trade Center. A warm, engaging, brilliant advocate of socialism-whom Buckley described shortly before his death in 1989 as a "brave and admirable man"-Har rington was a ...