{"product_id":"how-the-other-half-lives","title":"How the Other Half Lives (Penguin Classics) by Jacob A. Riis","description":"\u003cp\u003eJacob Riis's illustrated tour of New York's slums had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that changed the face of the city. In 1890, when the book was published, the Lower East Side was a landscape of teeming streets and filthy tenements crowded with immigrants living in dreadful conditions. How the Other Half Lives brings them to life - the Italians, Jews, Bohemians (Czechs and Slovaks), Blacks, and Chinese - in precise descriptions of their habits and traditions, jobs and wages, rents paid and meals eaten, and explores the effects of crime, poverty, alcohol, and lack of education and opportunity on adults and children alike. Riis's reliance on specific, hard facts as the tools and weapons of social criticism pioneered the style of crusading journalism that continues today. His use of photographs (reproduced in this edition) to put faces to his stories was a landmark in photojournalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Luc Sante\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow the Other Half Lives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Genesis of the Tenement\u003cbr\u003e2 The Awakening\u003cbr\u003e3 The Mixed Crowd\u003cbr\u003e4 The Down Town Back-alleys\u003cbr\u003e5 The Italian in New York\u003cbr\u003e6 The Bend\u003cbr\u003e7 A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives\u003cbr\u003e8 The Cheap Lodging-houses\u003cbr\u003e9 Chinatown\u003cbr\u003e10 Jewtown\u003cbr\u003e11 The Sweaters of Jewtown\u003cbr\u003e12 The Bohemians-Tenement-house Cigarmaking\u003cbr\u003e13 The Color Line in New York\u003cbr\u003e14 The Common Herd\u003cbr\u003e15 The Problem of the Children\u003cbr\u003e16 Waifs of the City's Slums\u003cbr\u003e17 The Street Arab\u003cbr\u003e18 The Reign of Rum\u003cbr\u003e19 The Harvest of Tares\u003cbr\u003e20 The Working Girls of New York\u003cbr\u003e21 Pauperism in the Tenements\u003cbr\u003e22 The Wrecks and the Waste\u003cbr\u003e23 The Man with the Knife\u003cbr\u003e24 What Has Been Done\u003cbr\u003e25 How the Case Stands\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eExplanatory Notes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacob Riis\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1849-1914) was a journalist and photographer born in Denmark.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucy Sante\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in Verviers, Belgium, and now lives in the Hudson River Valley. Her books include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLow Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvidence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Factory of Facts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKill All Your Darlings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Other Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaybe the People Would Be the Times,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand most recently \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Nineteen Reservoirs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She has written for many periodicals, notably the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e since 1981. Her honors include a Whiting Writer's Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy (for album notes), an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim and Cullman fellowships. Since 1999 she has taught writing and the history of photography at Bard College.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTarget Age: 18 and up\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePenguin Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePub Date: \u003cspan\u003eNovember 01, 1997\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e9780140436792\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e0.51\" H x 7.73\" L x 5.09\" W\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e256 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003epaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45549875724474,"sku":"9780140436792","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_72c4c084-9af4-47c1-81fd-32f584397f51.jpg?v=1769771584","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/how-the-other-half-lives","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}