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Jacob August Riis was a American journalist. This Christian helped the impoverished in New York City; those needy were the focus of much of his writing. In his youth in Denmark he read Dickens and J. Cooper; his works exhibit the story-telling skills acquired under the tutelage of many English-speaking writers.
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This looks like another print-on-demand book from Create Space Independent Publishing, printing date 24 March I've reviewed books by them before, and again I'm not impressed with the quality of their books. First off, the font size of the printing is miniscule.
The book measures 6" by 9", has pages and has 58 lines of type on a page. It's almost impossible to read and comprehend. One person found this helpful. The reader was given a barrage of facts and statistics, as well as photographs and ethnic break-downs of each of the immigrant groups. In almost militaristic fashion, Riis and the reformers battled corrupt local political machines read Tammany Hall , interested businesses, and greedy landlords. Each neighborhood is practically mapped out like a battlefield. Jacob Riis produced some award-winning photographs of the Five Points slum, but these are not in the Kindle edition.
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I guess you get what you pay for, since the download is free. So, if you want the photos you will have to pay for the print edition, or get a download that you know contains these photos.
The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. Riis
This book hilights the lows of urban life around the turn of the century, a time when immigration and migration were happening all around. City life in america had a huge underside with noise, crime, poverty, and squalor. Racial and ethnic conflicts were previlant. Riis' photos capture this side of city life in America.
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Though not as heart-rending as "How the Other Half Lives", this book by Riis is important to shed light on how society cleaned up some of the worst slums in US history. Tammany Hall, the Democratic party machine, was responsible for political patronage jobs that were do-nothing plums; a photo shows the street-cleaning of Tammany broomsmen versus that of a reformer who took over cleaning the precinct's streets. Various charitable societies worked strenuously to ameliorate the worst of the slums, to pass laws requiring light and air in tenements, though landlords were clever in circumventing or perverting the legal requirements a window in a room could be on an inside wall; the airshaft--a thin passageway between buildings was all the air many apartments got.
Schools were at first overcrowded rooms with no desks, no ventilation and seventy students attempting to learn. Reformers got desks, ventilated buildings, smaller class sizes.
This is a fascinating story of how people worked together to try to better an abusive situation in the poorest sections of American cities. See all 5 reviews. Customers who bought this item also bought. The Making of an American by Jacob A. Pages with related products. See and discover other items: There's a problem loading this menu right now. Learn more about Amazon Prime.
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