The Making of an American
They thought I had lost my head, but I told them no, thank God! I had found it, and my heart, too, at last. I knew then that it was my flag; that my children’s home was mine, indeed; that I also had become an American in truth.
—Chap. XVI. The American Made
Jacob
Riis
Riis
The Making of an American
Jacob A. Riis
Contents
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1901
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2000
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2000
- The Meeting on the Long Bridge
- I Land in New York and take a Hand in the Game
- I go to War at last, and sow the Seed of Future Campaigns
- Working and Wandering
- I go into Business, headlong
- In which I become an Editor and receive my First Love Letter
- Elizabeth tells her Story
- Early Married Life; I become an Advertising Bureau; on the "Tribune"
- Life in Mulberry Street
- My Dog is avenged
- The Bend is laid by the Heels
- I become an Author and resume my Interrupted Career as a Lecturer
- Roosevelt comes—Mulberry Street’s Golden Age
- I try to go to the War for the Third and Last Time
- When I went Home to Mother
- The American Made