Isbn: 9781646793082 - the making of an american: illustrated (9 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 478 pages. 5.50x1.19x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it--but all that had gone before.' --Jacob Riis, The Making of an AmericanJournalist Jacob Riis wrote his autobiography, The Making of an American, in 1901, a personal story about his and America's past: his early life in Denmark, his struggles as an immigrant in the United States, and how he took advantage of the opportunities offered in America.This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in immigrant stories, the history of the United States and New York, and social reform at the turn of the twentieth century.…

Condizione: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnJACOB A. RIIS (1849-1914), a Danish immigrant who arrived in New York in 1870, became a newspaper reporter and a social reformer. Having experienced poverty firsthand, he explored the social conditions of the New York poor.

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