ASIN: B01MXDZCHW
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 195
Hamilton Holt (1872 – 1951) was an American educator, editor, author and politician. Holt served as editor and publisher of the weekly magazine The Independent in New York from 1897 to 1921.Holt was an outspoken advocate for reform, prohibition, immigrant rights, and international peace. In 1906 he published a collection of immigrants' life stories as "The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves".The aim of each autobiography is to typify the life of the average worker in some particular vocation, and to make each story the genuine experience of a real person. From this list have been selected the following sixteen lives as most representative of the humbler classes in the nation, and of individuals whose training and work have been the most diverse. Thus we have the story of the butcher, the sweat-shop worker, the bootblack, the push-cart peddler, the lumber ...
