Title Jacob Riis : reporter and reformer / Janet B. Pascal

Edition 1st ed Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (175 pages) : illustrations Summary Charts the course of Jacob Riis's work as a police reporter, which took him into the worst of New York's ghettos and tenements. Shows how his book, How the Other Half Lives, brought to life an entire reform movement. Characterizes his alliance with the young Theodore Roosevelt's battle to reform the New York police, breaking the brutal system of corruption and graft that had prevented the possibility of any real change in poor neighborhoods Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-169) and index Notes Print version record Subject Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 -- Juvenile literature SUBJECT Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 fast Subject Social reformers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography -- Juvenile literature Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography -- Juvenile literature Journalists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography -- Juvenile literature Slums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Juvenile literature Tenement houses -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Juvenile literature JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Social Science -- General. JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- General. Journalists Photographers Slums Social conditions Social reformers Tenement houses SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature Subject New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form Biographies History Juvenile works Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780198033202 0198033206

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