Twenty Years at Hull-House - Softcover

Jane Addams,

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451527399 ISBN 13: 9780451527394

Publisher: SIGNET CLASSICS, 2010

Synopsis

Addams's account about the founding and development of her famed settlement house in Chicago's West Side slums stands as the immortal testament of a woman who lived and worked among those in need.

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Review:

"An indispensable classic of American intellectual and social history." -- Berenice A. Carroll, editor of Liberating Women's History: Theoretical and Critical Essays. "After twenty years of relative obscurity, the early-twentieth-century social crusader and author of Twenty Years at Hull-House is once again in the spotlight." -- Arianne Chernock, Lingua Franca. "The classic account of the development of Hull-House into a vibrant community center for Chicago's immigrants and poor. Addams' memoir is central to understanding the aims and mood of the progressive era." -- The Front Table

About the Author:

Jane Addams (1860-1935) was an American social reformer, social worker, philosopher, and activist in the women's suffrage movement. In 1899, she cofounded, with Ellen Gates Starr in Chicago, Hull House, the first settlement in the United States, as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931 for her work in social reform. She is the author of two memoirs, Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) and The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House (1930).

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) was a historian and widely regarded as an expert on US constitutional law and politics. He taught history at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College. A prolific author, Commager's most influential works include The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880s and Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment.

About this edition

• Publisher: SIGNET CLASSICS
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0451527399
• ISBN 13: 9780451527394
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 308