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Title: The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. Riis ISBN: 0-486-40196-0 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 07 July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Politics and Poverty
Comment: Though not as heart-rending as "How the Other Half Lives", this book by Riis is important to shed light on how society cleaned up some of the worst slums in US history.
Tammany Hall, the Democratic party machine, was responsible for political patronage jobs that were do-nothing plums; a photo shows the street-cleaning of Tammany broomsmen versus that of a reformer who took over cleaning the precinct's streets. Various charitable societies worked strenuously to ameliorate the worst of the slums, to pass laws requiring light and air in tenements, though landlords were clever in circumventing or perverting the legal requirements (a window in a room could be on an inside wall; the airshaft--a thin passageway between buildings was all the air many apartments got.) Schools were at first overcrowded rooms with no desks, no ventilation and seventy students attempting to learn. Reformers got desks, ventilated buildings, smaller class sizes. This is a fascinating story of how people worked together to try to better an abusive situation in the poorest sections of American cities.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wake up Call
Comment: This book hilights the lows of urban life around the turn of the century, a time when immigration and migration were happening all around. City life in america had a huge underside with noise, crime, poverty, and squalor. Racial and ethnic conflicts were previlant. Riis' photos capture this side of city life in America.
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Title: Five Points: The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum by Tyler Anbinder ISBN: 0452283612 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Jacob Riis by Bonnie Yochelsem ISBN: 0714840343 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Old New York in Early Photographs by Mary Black ISBN: 0486229076 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1973 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury, Jorge Luis Borges ISBN: 1560252758 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Low Life : Lures and Snares of Old New York by Luc Sante ISBN: 0679738762 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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