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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.
Famous journalistic record, exposing poverty and degradation of New York slums around 1900, by major social reformer. 100 striking and influential photographs.
First published in 1890, Jacob Riis's remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the poor in New York Ciry had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that affected the lives of millions of people.
Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in
publishing essential American writings in authoritative
editions.
Jacob Riis s pioneering work of photojournalism takes its title
from Rabelais s Pantagruel: One half of the world knoweth not how
the other half liveth; considering that no one has yet written of
that Country. An anatomy of New York City s slums in the 1880s, it
vividly brought home to its first readers through the powerful
combination of text and images the squalid living conditions of the
other half, who might well have inhabited another country. The book
pricked the conscience of its readers and raised the tenement into
a symbol of intransigent social difference. As Alan Trachtenberg
makes clear in his introduction, it is a book that still speaks
powerfully to us today of social injustice.
Except for the modernization of spelling and punctuation, the
John Harvard Library edition of "How the Other Half Lives"
reproduces the text of the first published book version of November
1890. For this edition, prints have been made from Riis s original
photographs now in the archives of the Museum of the City of New
York. Endnotes aid the contemporary reader.
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