How The Other Half Lives

by Jacob A. Riis

Overview

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.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163000500
Publisher:	Walrus Books Publisher
Publication date:	01/04/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jacob August Riis was a American journalist. This Christian helped the impoverished in New York City; those needy were the focus of much of his writing. In his youth in Denmark he read Dickens and J.F. Cooper; his works exhibit the story-telling skills acquired under the tutelage of many English-speaking writers.