How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

Jacob A. Riis

304 pages first pub 1890 (editions) user-added

nonfiction classics history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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How the Other Half Lives is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century had to endure. Riis, who as an immigrant himself lived in these tenements on the lower east side...

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