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Title: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams ISBN: 0-451-52739-9 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonderful book.
Comment: Although, I did find this book to be hard to read at times, I did find it very interesting. It was an inspiring book, showing what a group of dedicated ladies can do when they set their minds to something. Jane Addams is quite the heroine along with the many other ladies that helped her run Hull-House. A very inspiring story. We should all be as dedicated to doing good in the world.
Rating: 4
Summary: A unique mix of journalism and social policy.
Comment: Though Addams' prose often gets mired in the florid and highly mannered style of her era, this is a surprisingly compelling book. Free of the ethnic racism and stereotyping that blight many similar works of the era, Addams' account of her groundbreaking community center in one of the worst parts of late 19th-century Chicago fairly overflows with compassion and almost unbelievable fairness. Addams's intelligence is evident, and many of her ideas and attitudes seem decades ahead of their time. It's not light reading by any stretch of the imagination, but "Twenty Years at Hull House" contains many gripping portraits of the desperation of immigrant life and the simple power of human decency.
Rating: 5
Summary: More context...
Comment: Two great books that discuss Addams huge contributions to society are the more general "That Jazz!: An Idiosyncratic Social History of the American Twenties" and the Chicago-specific (where she ran Hull House), "Altgeld's America." Check these out as well as this source material by Addams herself (quite a good writer, actually, despite what the 20-year-old reviewer said!).
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Title: The Jane Addams Reader by Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain ISBN: 0465019153 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 18 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried ISBN: 0252070232 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Useful Woman : The Early Life of Jane Addams by Gioia Diliberto ISBN: 0684853655 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 07 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Long Road of Woman's Memory by Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried ISBN: 0252070240 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Jane Addams: A Biography by James Weber Linn, Anne Firor Scott ISBN: 0252069048 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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