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How the Other Half Lives Studies Among the Tenements of New York 1890 [Hardcover]

Jacob A. Riis

The belief that every man's experience ought to be worth something to the community from which he drew it, no matter what that experience may be, so long as it was gleaned along the line of some decent, honest work, made me begin this book. With the result before him, the reader can judge for himsel...

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This groundbreaking book was described as a damning account of New York City's disease-ridden slums, using photographs and vivid details to give middle-class readers a shocking look into the squalor of immigrant neighborhoods.

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In 1890, Danish immigrant Jacob Rees published his groundbreaking book How the Other Half Lives, a damning account of New York City's disease-ridden slums.

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This groundbreaking book was described as a damning account of New York City's disease-ridden slums, using photographs and vivid details to give middle-class readers a shocking look into the squalor of immigrant neighborhoods.

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In 1890, Danish immigrant Jacob Rees published his groundbreaking book How the Other Half Lives, a damning account of New York City's disease-ridden slums.

Roosevelt had read and admired Reese's pioneering study of living conditions in New York's tenements titled How the Other Half Lives.

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