We may either smother the divine fire in youth or we may feed it, Jane Addams writes. Suffused with Addams's abiding compassion, tempered with her pragmatism and humor, and shot through with anecdotes of her own experiences with young people, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets is a level-headed assessment of the challenges facing urban youth and the most effective ways to meet them. When this book was first published in 1909, Addams was the most famous woman in America. A celebrity and a spiritual leader, she was widely regarded as practical, realistic, and endowed with a special...
We may either smother the divine fire in youth or we may feed it, Jane Addams writes. Suffused with Addams's abiding compassion, tempered with her pra...
A picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city, corrupt and contented. The men and women of Philadelphia who emerge in these pages are anything but staid, and certainly not contented. Although much has been written about elite Philadelphians, only in recent decades have historians paid attention to the Jews and working-class blacks, the immigrant Irish, Italians, and Poles who settled in the city and gave such sections as Moyamensing, Southwark, South Philadelphia, and Kensington their vitality. In this classic of social and ethnic history,...
A picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city, corrupt and contented. The men and women of Philadel...
Books about Jane Addams founder of Hull House, social reformer, suffragist, pacifist, and one of the most greatly admired women in American history come and go, but Allen Davis's account of her life, work, and ideas remains the standard biography. "A distinguished work of scholarship, mature, incisive....Davis has written not only the best study of Jane Addams but perhaps the best biography of any great American woman." William L. O'Neill. "The first book that systematically and persuasively separates the real woman from the myth. It will be indispensable to anyone interested in the subject...
Books about Jane Addams founder of Hull House, social reformer, suffragist, pacifist, and one of the most greatly admired women in American history co...
This work presents the thinking of thirteen distinguished foreign observers who examine and evaluate the imprint of America on their own lives and on their nation. It covers the whole spectrum of American political and cultural influences ranging from the material benefits of American influence to the violence which can be found in American life.
This work presents the thinking of thirteen distinguished foreign observers who examine and evaluate the imprint of America on their own lives and ...
