The Other Half
The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America
by Tom Buk-Swienty

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• Author: Tom Buk-Swienty
• Language: english
• Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
• Release date: August 17, 2008
• Format: hardcover, 352 pages
• Genres: history, biography
• ISBN: 9780393060232 (0393060233)

About The Book

Drawing on previously unexamined diaries and letters, The Other Half marvelously re-creates the moving story of Jacob Riis, the legendary Progressive reformer and muckraking photographer. Born in 1849 in rural Denmark, Riis immigrated to America in 1870 following a devastating romantic breakup. Penniless and starving, Riis stumbled into journalism, eventually becoming a charismatic police reporter for the New York Tribune, where he befriended Theodore Roosevelt and witnessed firsthand the appalling tenement conditions of late nineteenth-century New York. His resulting exposé, How the Other Half Lives, was the first major American muckraking book. It brought Americans in touch with their lost humanity, establishing a precedent for Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Jane Addams, and Upton Sinclair. Described by Roosevelt as “the ideal American,” Riis died in 1914, mourned by millions, a celebrated hero. Tom Buk-Swienty’s long-awaited biography, a superb evocation of the muckraking era, is a compelling work, designed with 55 haunting images from Riis’s own photographic oeuvre.

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