Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half
By Jacob A. Riis · Running time 2:58:50 · Essays & Short Works, Family & Relationships, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
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These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital human interest and with the faithful striving to help the brother so that it counts. They have this in common, that they are true. For good reasons, names and places are changed, but they all happened as told here. I could not have invented them had I tried; I should not have tried if I could. For it is as pictures from the life in which they and we, you and I, are partners, that
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