The Making of an American is a memoir written by Jacob A. Riis, a Danish-American journalist and social reformer. The book chronicles Riis's journey from his impoverished upbringing in Denmark to his eventual success as a journalist and advocate for social justice in America. Riis's narrative is a compelling and often harrowing account of his struggles to overcome poverty, illness, and discrimination. He describes his experiences working as a laborer in Denmark and his eventual emigration to the United States, where he ...
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The Making of an American is a memoir written by Jacob A. Riis, a Danish-American journalist and social reformer. The book chronicles Riis's journey from his impoverished upbringing in Denmark to his eventual success as a journalist and advocate for social justice in America. Riis's narrative is a compelling and often harrowing account of his struggles to overcome poverty, illness, and discrimination. He describes his experiences working as a laborer in Denmark and his eventual emigration to the United States, where he found work as a newspaper reporter. Throughout the book, Riis also provides vivid descriptions of the poverty and squalor he witnessed in the slums of New York City, where he lived and worked for many years. He details the appalling conditions in the tenement buildings, the rampant crime and disease, and the struggles of the immigrants who lived there. Despite the challenges he faced, Riis remained dedicated to his work as a journalist and social reformer. He used his writing to expose the injustices of poverty and inequality and to advocate for reform. The Making of an American is a powerful testament to Riis's determination and his commitment to making a difference in the world.In all of which I have made no account of a factor which is at the bottom of half our troubles with our immigrant population, so far as they are not of our own making: the loss of reckoning that follows uprooting; the cutting loose from all sense of responsibility, with the old standards gone, that makes the politician's job so profitable in our large cities, and that of the patriot and the housekeeper so wearisome. We all know the process. The immigrant has no patent on it. It afflicts the native, too, when he goes to a town where he is not known.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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