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Jacob A. Riis (Jacob August Riis) 1849–1914, Danish-American journalist and social reformer, b. Denmark. He emigrated to the United States in 1870. In 1877 he became a police reporter for the New York Tribune and later for the New York Evening Sun. His reports on slum dwellings and abuses of lower-class urban life culminated in his first book, How the Other Half Lives (1890), and earned him the friendship of Theodore Roosevelt.—Continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Pronunciation: r from The American Heritage®
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How the Other Half Lives together with its sequel Battle with the Slum reveal through Riis’s sensationalist prose and photography the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City.
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