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Jacob Riis

Reporter and Reformer

Jacob Riis( )
Author: Pascal, Janet B.
ISBN:978-0-19-514527-4
Publication Date:Dec 2005
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $38.14AUD $75.95
Book Description:

Charts the course of Jacob Riis's work as a police reporter, which took him into the worst of New York's ghettos and tenements. Shows how his book, How the Other Half Lives, brought to life an entire reform movement. Characterizes his alliance with the young Theodore Roosevelt's battle to reform the New York police, breaking the brutal system of corruption and graft that had prevented the possibility of any real change in poor neighborhoods.

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