Making of an American

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Jacob A. Riis In Year : 1901

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Making of an American

The Meeting On The Long Bridge
I Land In New York And Take A Hand In The Game
I Go To War At Last, And Sow The Seed Of Future Campaigns
Working And Wandering
I Go Into Business, Headlong
In Which I Become An Editor And Receive My First Love Letter
Elizabeth Tells Her Story, Part 1
Elizabeth Tells Her Story, Part 2
Early Married Life; I Become An Advertising Bureau; On The "Tribune"
Life In Mulberry Street
My Dog Is Avenged
The Bend Is Laid By The Heels
I Become An Author And Resume My Interrupted Career As A Lecturer
Roosevelt Comes—Mulberry Street's Golden Age
I Try To Go To The War For The Third And Last Tlme
When I Went Home To Mother
The American Made

Jacob Riis was an esteemed reporter and documentary photographer in New York City. In his autobiography he movingly recounts his early life and unrelenting attempts at courtship in Denmark followed by his later experiences in the United States, first as a struggling itinerant immigrant and later as a journalist. He describes how he became a reporter and how his work in lower Manhattan’s teeming, squalid immigrant communities sparked his passion and activism for social reform. In his opening note he writes: “To those who have been asking if they are made-up stories, let me say here that they are not.” NOTE: Elizabeth's letter (In Chapter 7) is read by Ann Boulais. – Lee Smalley