The Other Half
Subtitle: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America
Contributors: Annette Buk-Swienty (Translator)
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: August 4, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780393060232
Subjects: History; Miscellaneous Items; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers
Description: A portrait of the late-nineteenth-century social reformer draws on previously unexamined diaries and letters to trace his immigration to America, work as a police reporter for the "New York Tribune," and pivotal contributions as a muckraker and progressive.