How The Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis

How The Other Half Lives

Jacob A. Riis

200 pages first pub 1890 (editions)

nonfiction classics history sociology dark informative reflective slow-paced
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Jacob Riis, a police reporter and an immigrant himself, was intimately acquainted with the squalid living conditions in New York's tenements. He published this book to expose the reality of the quotidian life of New York's poorest in the 1880's. T...

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