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Riis: How ∗the Other Half∗ Lives: Studies Among Th E Tenements Of New York (John Harvard Library (Hardcover)) - Hardcover
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An 1890 report on the social conditions of the Lower East Side, based on a journalist's night rounds with a New York city health inspector
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About the Author
DAVID LEVIATIN (Ph.D., Harvard) has taught American studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the University of Rhode Island, and Charles University in Prague. In addition to the publication of numerous articles, Leviatin is the author of Prague Spring: Notes and Voices from the New World (1993) and Followers of the Trail: Jewish Working-Class Radicals in America (1989). He is also a freelance photographer whose photos have appeared in several major publications including the New York Times Magazine.
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In How The Other Half Lives New Yorkers read with horror that three-quarters of the residents of their city were housed in tenements and that in those tenements rents were substantially higher than in better sections of the city. In his book Riis gave a full and detailed picture of what life in those slums was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, who was forced to live there, and offered suggestions for easing the lot of the poor.
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How the Other Half Lives
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How the Other Half Lives; Studies Among the Tenements of New York
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1970
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Hardcover. Reprint of 1980 Edition. Grey DJ with photo illustration and white lettering; brown cloth with silver lettering; xix, 246 pp.; richly illustrated. Included in this volume are forty-five of the original Riis photographs, which illustrate vividly, sometimes with great pathos, the scenes he describes in the text and which earned him the title "father of the American documentary." Six contemporary line drawings, showing views of tenement blocks and their floor plans, further augment thsi edition of Riis's work -- an exact reprinting, except for modernization of spelling and punctuation, of the text and appeandix of the first edition of November 1890. -- DJ. Good DJ, VG book (Ex art library with a sticker on DJ spine and rear endpaper; DJ is moderately edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; boards are lightly edgeworn; textblock edges are lightly smudged; interior is extremely clean; binding is solid.). Seller Inventory # 200804
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (The John Harvard Library)
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