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  • I already knew Jake Riis, because his book "How the Other Half Lives" had been to me both an enlightenment and an inspiration for which I felt I could never be too grateful.

    VI. The New York Police 1913

  • Jake Riis and I spent one Sunday from morning till night in the tenement districts, seeing for ourselves what had happened.

    VI. The New York Police 1913

  • Jake Riis accompanied me; and as a result of our inspection we got not only an improvement in the law but a still more marked improvement in its administration.

    VIII. The New York Governorship 1913

  • Jake Riis accompanied me; and as a result of our inspection we got not only an improvement in the law but a still more marked improvement in its administration.

    An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

  • I already knew Jake Riis, because his book "How the Other Half Lives" had been to me both an enlightenment and an inspiration for which I felt I could never be too grateful.

    An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

  • Jake Riis and I spent one Sunday from morning till night in the tenement districts, seeing for ourselves what had happened.

    An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

  • Jake Riis and I spent one Sunday from morning till night in the tenement districts, seeing for ourselves what had happened.

    Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • I already knew Jake Riis, because his book "How the Other Half Lives" had been to me both an enlightenment and an inspiration for which I felt I could never be too grateful.

    Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888

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