Jacob Riis Reporter and Reformer,9780195145274

Jacob Riis Reporter and Reformer

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ISBN13: 9780195145274
ISBN10: 0195145275
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-12-02
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

When Jacob Riis arrived in New York in 1870, with only $40 in his pocket, he found a city divided by extremes of rich and poor, two groups who had little, if any, contact with each other. Riis, like so many other immigrants, became homeless and penniless. After a series of odd jobs, including working in a coal mine and a brickyard, Riis found a job at a newspaper, which proved to be a turning point in his life. As a reporter, Riis gained unusual access into the lives of the poor. And instead of feeling contempt for the poor, as the middle class often did, Riis felt compassion for the lives of the people whose struggles he had experienced firsthand.

Table of Contents

Prologue 6(9)
Jacob the Delver
9(9)
``I Am Glad I Was a Boy Then''
13(5)
Homeless and Penniless
18(11)
Making Acquaintance with the Slums
26(3)
Restless Energy
29(10)
Jacob Riis, City Editor
36(3)
``He Was Always That Way''
39(10)
Help from Tammany Hall
46(3)
``Hurrah!''
49(12)
City Toughs and Country Hoodlums
54(7)
The ``Boss Reporter'' in Mulberry Street
61(10)
Burrowing Deep in the Slums
71(17)
Fire at the ``Dirty Spoon''
82(6)
Poverty, Squalor, and Wretchedness
88(10)
Sweatshop Economics
94(4)
How the Other Half Lives
98(14)
Four Stories of the Tenements
104(8)
Photo Essay: Riis as a Photographer
112(49)
``I Have Read Your Book, and I Have Come to Help''
122(16)
A Friend to Children
126(12)
``Decent and Cleanly Living''
138(11)
The Official Definition of ``Dark''
143(6)
``Never Had Man Better a Time Than I''
149(12)
The Sun in Stanton Street
154(7)
Afterword 161(3)
Chronology 164(3)
Further Reading and Websites 167(3)
Index 170

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