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Bial, Raymond

Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side

48 pp. | Houghton | August, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-618-13849-8 $$16.00
(2) 4-6 Opening with optimistic rhetoric about the immigrant experience, Bial quickly moves to his subject: the pessimistic reality of immigrants living in tenements on New York's Lower East Side. Relying heavily on reformer Jacob Riis's words and photos, Bial documents the rise of the tenement and the appalling conditions under which those tenements "prospered." Bial's own photos have a compelling clarity and composition. Bib.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2002

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