"How the Other Half Lives" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th century ...

A classic early example of “muck-racking” journalism, or reporting by reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions ...

A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the ...

Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of "How the Other Half Lives" (1890) by Jacob Riis. This powerful collection of photographs depicts ...

The papers which form this autobiography were originally published in The Outlook, the chapter telling of my going "home to mother" in The Churchman ...

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing ...

American journalist JACOB AUGUST RIIS (1849-1914) was the man for whom the term muckraker was coined, and the reason why is perfectly stark in this collection ...

“Of the President I am proud with reason, but the friend I love. And if I can make you see him so, as a friend and a man, I have given you the master-key ...