Intro -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- 1 JACOB THE DELVER -- "I Am Glad I Was a Boy Then" -- 2 HOMELESS AND PENNILESS -- Making Acquaintance with the Slums -- 3 RESTLESS ENERGY -- Jacob Riis, City Editor -- 4 "HE WAS ALWAYS THAT WAY" -- Help from Tammany Hall -- 5 "HURRAH!" -- City Toughs and Country Hoodlums -- 6 THE "BOSS REPORTER" IN MULBERRY STREET -- 7 BURROWING DEEP IN THE SLUMS -- Fire at the "Dirty Spoon -- 8 POVERTY, SQUALOR, AND WRETCHEDNESS -- Sweatshop Economics -- 9 HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES -- Four Stories of the Tenements -- PHOTO ESSAY: RIIS AS A PHOTOGRAPHER -- 10 "I HAVE READ YOUR BOOK, AND I HAVE COME TO HELP" -- A Friend to Children -- 11 "DECENT AND CLEANLY LIVING" -- The Official Definition of "Dark" -- 12 "NEVER HAD MAN BETTER A TIME THAN I" -- The Sun in Stanton Street -- AFTERWORD -- CHRONOLOGY -- FURTHER READING AND WEBSITES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-169) and index
