Published three years after A Ten Year?s War, The Battle with the Slum is the sequel to Riis? How the Other Half Lives. This book is a collection of Riis?...
A Ten Year's War
A Ten Years' War; An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 - May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.
These are fragile moments in Klong Toey society, where the most common New Year's blessing seems to be, "May you be money rich." Where interest rates are two per cent per day and perhaps on New Year's day, a moneylender in a weak moment ...
Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes was a hardworking young father before he became the king of Rocinha, the largest slum in Rio; the head of a drug cartel; and perhaps Brazil's most wanted criminal, known as “Nem.” Nemesis is the riveting ...