Fighting for Life by Helen Epstein, S. Josephine Baker

Fighting for Life

Helen Epstein, S. Josephine Baker

304 pages first pub 1939 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir science informative slow-paced
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New York’s Lower East Side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on earth in the 1890s. Health inspectors called the neighborhood “the suicide ward.” Diarrhea epidemics raged each summer, killing thousands of children. Sweatshop ba...

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