The Making of an American

Number of Chapters: 17

Length: 09 hours and 59 minutes

Language: English

Jacob Riis was an esteemed reporter and documentary photographer in New York City. In his autobiography he movingly recounts his early life and unrelenting attempts at courtship in Denmark followed by his later experiences in the United States, first as a struggling itinerant immigrant and later as a journalist. He describes how he became a reporter and how his work in lower Manhattan’s teeming, squalid immigrant communities sparked his passion and activism for social reform. In his opening note he writes: “To those who have been asking if they are made-up stories, let me say here that they are not.”

NOTE: Elizabeth's letter (In Chapter 7) is read by Ann Boulais. – Lee Smalley

The Meeting On The Long Bridge (Lee Smalley)

I Land In New York And Take A Hand In The Game (Lee Smalley)

I Go To War At Last, And Sow The Seed Of Future Campaigns (Lee Smalley)

Working And Wandering (Lee Smalley)

I Go Into Business, Headlong (Lee Smalley)

In Which I Become An Editor And Receive My First Love Letter (Lee Smalley)

Elizabeth Tells Her Story, Part 1 (Ann Boulais)

Elizabeth Tells Her Story, Part 2 (Lee Smalley)

Early Married Life; I Become An Advertising Bureau; On The "Tribune" (Lee Smalley)

Life In Mulberry Street (Lee Smalley)

My Dog Is Avenged (Lee Smalley)

The Bend Is Laid By The Heels (Lee Smalley)

I Become An Author And Resume My Interrupted Career As A Lecturer (Lee Smalley)

Roosevelt Comes—Mulberry Street's Golden Age (Lee Smalley)

I Try To Go To The War For The Third And Last Tlme (Lee Smalley)

When I Went Home To Mother (Lee Smalley)

The American Made (Lee Smalley)

The audiobook The Making of an American falls under the genres of Biography & Autobiography. It is written by Jacob A. Riis.

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