The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America - Rilegato

Buk-swienty, Tom

 
9780393060232: The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America
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ISBN 10: 0393060233 ISBN 13: 9780393060232
Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2008

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Drawing on previously unexamined diaries and letters, The Other Half marvelously re-creates the moving story of Jacob Riis, the legendary Progressive reformer and muckraking photographer. Born in 1849 in rural Denmark, Riis immigrated to America in 1870 following a devastating romantic breakup. Penniless and starving, Riis stumbled into journalism, eventually becoming a charismatic police reporter for the New York Tribune, where he befriended Theodore Roosevelt and witnessed firsthand the appalling tenement conditions of late nineteenth-century New York. His resulting exposé, How the Other Half Lives, was the first major American muckraking book. It brought Americans in touch with their lost humanity, establishing a precedent for Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Jane Addams, and Upton Sinclair. Described by Roosevelt as "the ideal American," Riis died in 1914, mourned by millions, a celebrated hero. Tom Buk-Swienty's long-awaited biography, a superb evocation of the muckraking era, is a compelling work, designed with 55 haunting images from Riis's own photographic oeuvre.

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Editore
W W Norton & Co Inc
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0393060233
ISBN 13 
9780393060232
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
331
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