Jacob Riis : reporter and reformer

Jacob Riis : reporter and reformer /

Charts the course of Jacob Riis's work as a police reporter, which took him into the worst of New York's ghettos and tenements. Shows how his book, How the Other Half Lives, brought to life an entire reform movement. Characterizes his alliance with the young Theodore Roosevelt's battl...

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Main Author: Pascal, Janet B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Riis, Jacob A. > (Jacob August), > 1849-1914 > Juvenile literature.
Social reformers > New York (State) > New York > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Photographers > New York (State) > New York > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Journalists > New York (State) > New York > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Slums > New York (State) > New York > History > Juvenile literature.
Tenement houses > New York (State) > New York > History > Juvenile literature.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > Juvenile literature.
Biographies.
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