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Jacob A. Riis

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born

May 03, 1849 in Ribe, Denmark

died

May 26, 1914

genre

Journalism, Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Photography

influences

1. Youth in the war-ravaged borderlands between Germany and Denmark. 2...more

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Jacob August Riis was a American journalist. This Christian helped the impoverished in New York City; those needy were the focus of much of his writing. In his youth in Denmark he read Dickens and J.F. Cooper; his works exhibit the story-telling skills acquired under the tutelage of many English-speaking writers.

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Books by Jacob A. Riis

Average rating: 3.74 · 622 ratings · 72 reviews · 38 distinct works

	How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis, Luc Sante (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 586 ratings — published 1890 — 37 editions	My rating:
	The Battle with the Slum 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1969 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Making of an American 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1901 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Children Of The Tenements 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Theodore Roosevelt, The Citizen 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1904 — 11 editions	My rating:
	A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1900 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Hero Tales of the Far North 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1910 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement Life in New York City 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1897 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Jacob Riis Revisited: Poverty and the Slum in Another Era 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Nibsy's Christmas 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Jacob A. Riis

“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 in it. Yet at the hundred and first
blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
― Jacob A. Riis

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“Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!”
― Jacob A. Riis, Unknown Book 12380537

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“In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.”
― Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives