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Jacob Riis and the Other Half "The first tenement New York knew bore the mark of Cain from its birth, though a generation passed before the writing was deciphered." "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York" is arguably one of the most important books published in the United States in the 19th-century ("Uncle Toms Cabin" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" are the obvious other contenders for the title). Together with its sequel "Battle with the Slum," this book uses sensationalist photographs and prose (as the above opening line indicates) from Jacob Riis to document the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of New York City at the turn-of-the-century. The strong point of Riis's work is the unparalleled depth of his descriptive gaze. His descriptions of the physical aspects of life in the slums of New York City is bone-chilling. Pardon the cliché, but...

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