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Children Of The City

At Work and at Play

Author David Nasaw
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Knopf | Anchor
On sale May 16, 2012 | 256 Pages | 9780307816627
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The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams.

Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.
Acknowledgements

Preface

1.  The City They Called Home

2.  At Play in the City

3.  Child Labor and Laborers

4.  The Littlest Hustlers

5.  The Newsies

6.  Junkers, Scavengers, and Petty Theives

7.  The “Litter Mothers”

8.  All That Money Could Buy

9.  The Battle for Spending Money

10. The Children and the Child-Savers

11. Working Together

12. Unions and Strikes

13. End of an Era

Epilogue

Appendix:  A Note on Sources: The Newsboy Studies

Abbreviations

Notes

Index
© Alex Irklievski
David Nasaw is a historian, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and bestselling author of The Last Million, named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, and History Today, and, according to The Economist, one of the "six must-read books on the Second World War"; The Patriarch, a New York Times Five Best Non-Fiction Books of the Year; Andrew Carnegie, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the New-York Historical Society's American History Book Prize; and The Chief, winner of the Bancroft Prize. He is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate Center and a past president of the Society of American Historians. In 2023, Nasaw was honored by the New York Public Library as a “Library Lion.” View titles by David Nasaw

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The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams.

Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

1.  The City They Called Home

2.  At Play in the City

3.  Child Labor and Laborers

4.  The Littlest Hustlers

5.  The Newsies

6.  Junkers, Scavengers, and Petty Theives

7.  The “Litter Mothers”

8.  All That Money Could Buy

9.  The Battle for Spending Money

10. The Children and the Child-Savers

11. Working Together

12. Unions and Strikes

13. End of an Era

Epilogue

Appendix:  A Note on Sources: The Newsboy Studies

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Author

© Alex Irklievski
David Nasaw is a historian, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and bestselling author of The Last Million, named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, and History Today, and, according to The Economist, one of the "six must-read books on the Second World War"; The Patriarch, a New York Times Five Best Non-Fiction Books of the Year; Andrew Carnegie, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the New-York Historical Society's American History Book Prize; and The Chief, winner of the Bancroft Prize. He is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate Center and a past president of the Society of American Historians. In 2023, Nasaw was honored by the New York Public Library as a “Library Lion.” View titles by David Nasaw

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