How the Other Half Lives Audiobook by Jacob Riis

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/52/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: How the Other Half Lives Author: Jacob Riis Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins Language: English Release date: 12-31-09 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 32 votes Genres: Classics, Nonfiction Publisher's Summary: How the Other Half Lives was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle class. How The Other Half Lives quickly became a landmark in the annals of social reform. Riis documented the filth, disease, exploitation, and overcrowding that characterized the experience of more than one million immigrants. He helped push tenement reform to the front of New York's political agenda, and prompted then-Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt to close down the police-run poor houses. Roosevelt later called Riis "the most useful citizen of New York". Riis's idea inspired Jack London to write a similar expos on London's East End, called People of the Abyss. Editorial Reviews: Narrator Danny Campbell beautifully illustrates this blunt and righteous text. Photojournalist and consciousness objector Jacob Riis unearthed the plight of New York slum dwellers in the 1880s via brutally honest photography. He was a pioneer of art in the cause of social justice. He also wrote singeing indictments of the other half, the people of privilege who are indifferent to and often profit from the misery of the poor. His criticism is specific to the New York of that time, but on a broader note it highlights the legacy of inequity among mankind. Riis is not the dispassionate witness; he is deeply committed to shaming those who pretend ignorance of inequity. Campbells quietly angry voice shares Riis turbulent emotions, which range from outrage to grief.