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The Battle with the Slum (Hardcover)
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The Battle with the Slum (Hardcover)
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American journalist JACOB AUGUST RIIS (1849-1914) was the man for
whom the term muckraker was coined, and the reason why is perfectly
stark in this collection of true stories from the slums of
late-19th-century New York City. As a police reporter and
photographer for several newspapers in the 1870s, Riis became
intimate with-and disgusted by-the most crime-ridden areas of the
city, which were inevitably the poorest and most overpopulated by
desperate immigrants. An immigrant himself-Riis had emigrated from
Denmark-his work had morphed, by the 1880s, into a humanitarian cry
for help for the city's most impoverished citizens, and culminated
in his groundbreaking 1891 book How the Other Half Lives, a
pioneering work of photojournalism that revealed the inhuman
conditions of New York's tenements to an oblivious upper class. The
Battle with the Slum, dating from 1902, is the sequel to that book,
documenting much that had changed in a mere decade, thanks to
Riis's own advocacy, and how much work still remained to be done. A
replica of that first 1902 edition, complete with all the original
photographs and illustrations, this is essential reading for anyone
interested in the history of New York, of social justice, and of
activist journalism.
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