Exposing Hidden Worlds: How Jacob Riis' Photos Became Tools for Social Reform
Author: Burgan, Michael
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.0
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
8950
Points per Word
0.000223
Page Count
64
Points per Page
0.03125
Series
Captured History
Description
President Theodore Roosevelt called Jacob Riis "the best American I ever knew." The pioneering photojournalist, an immigrant from Denmark, drew attention to the poverty and evils of slum life in the late 1800s.