How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis

How the Other Half Lives

Jacob A. Riis

204 pages • hardcover • 1890

36 editions

nonfiction classics history sociology dark informative reflective slow-paced
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During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalo...

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