Hutchins Hapgood: 8 books

Hutchins Hapgood (May 21, 1869, Chicago – November 19, 1944, Provincetown, MA) was an American journalist, author and anarchist. Hapgood grew up in Alton, IL, where his father was a wealthy manufacturer of farming equipment. After a year at the University of Michigan, he transferred to Harvard...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Spirit of the Ghetto - Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition...

The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York by Hutchins Hapgood,an American journalist, author and anarchist.He obtained his first employment with the New York Commercial Advertiser (later known as the New York Globe). His mentor there was Lincoln Steffens, the muckraking reporter....

EARLY VOYAGES Paul left Mr. Younger's service in 1766 and acquired a sixth interest in a ship called King George's Packet, in which he went, as first mate, to the West Indies. The business instinct, always strong in him, received some satisfaction during this voyage by the transportation of blacks from...

School and Factory When I first met the heroine of this tale, Marie, she was twenty-three years old, yet had lived enough for a woman of more than twice her age; indeed, few women of any age ever acquire the amount of mental experience possessed by this factory hand and servant girl. She had more...

The Old and the New THE OLD MAN No part of New York has a more intense and varied life than the colony of Russian and Galician Jews who live on the east side and who form the largest Jewish city in the world. The old and the new come here into close contact and throw each other into high relief. The...

An historical sketch of life in the New York ghetto at the turn of the twentieth century. This volume looks at the people, places and rituals of the Jews within the context of social change and rapid industrialization.