[Announce] Harrington Award for "Place Matters"

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From: "Peter Dreier" <dreier at oxy.edu>

Colleagues,

My publisher just emailed me the news that my book, PLACE 
MATTERS: METROPOLITICS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, has 
won the 2002 Michael Harrington Book Award from the American 
Political Science Assn. It is given for the "outstanding book that 
demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a 
better world."   

I was both suprised and very pleased by this award, because Mike 
was first my hero (I heard him speak when I was in junior high 
school and THE OTHER AMERICA had just come out), then my 
mentor, and later (when I served on the DSA national board) my 
friend. Terry and I named one of our daughters, Sarah Michaela, 
after Mike.  

Mike always described his politics as advocating the "left wing of 
the possible" in contrast to being utopian or sectarian. This is what 
we tried to do with PLACE MATTERS. The award will be presented 
at the APSA meetings in Boston on August 31st; although I won't be 
there, my coauthors, John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom, will be 
there to accept it.  

Peter