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Twenty Years at Hull-House (A Prairie State Book)

Twenty Years at Hull-House (A Prairie State Book)

by JaneAddams (Author)

Synopsis

Published in 1910, this was Addams's most successful book; 80,000 copies were sold before her death in 1935. This annotated edition was issued on the occasion of the Hull-House centennial.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 328
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 30 Jun 1990
ISBN 10: 0252061071
ISBN 13: 9780252061073
Book Overview: The first annotated edition of Jane Addams's superb autobiography.

Media Reviews
An indispensable classic of American intellectual and social history. -- Berenice A. Carroll, editor of Liberating Women's History: Theoretical and Critical Essays. After twenty years of relative obscurity, the early-twentieth-century social crusader and author of Twenty Years at Hull-House is once again in the spotlight. -- Arianne Chernock, Lingua Franca. The classic account of the development of Hull-House into a vibrant community center for Chicago's immigrants and poor. Addams' memoir is central to understanding the aims and mood of the progressive era. -- The Front Table
Author Bio
James Hurt is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.