Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer by Janet B. Pascal

Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer

Oxford Portraits

Janet B. Pascal

175 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography childrens informative reflective medium-paced
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Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was born in Denmark and emigrated to America at the age of 21. After several years of poverty, he found work as a police reporter, which took him into the worst of New York's ghettos and tenements. Appalled by the conditions...

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