The Spirit of Youth and City Streets

by Jane Addams

Book Overview

"We may either smother the divine fire in youth or we may feed it," Jane Addams writes. Suffused with Addams's abiding compassion, tempered with her pragmatism and humor, and shot through with anecdotes of her own experiences with young people, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets is a level-headed assessment of the challenges facing urban youth and the most effective ways to meet them.
When this book was first published in 1909, Addams...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025200275X
• ISBN13: 9780252002755
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

William James's review

Jane Adams is the female lead of Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club. Here is a review of her book by one of it's male leads, William James, from a letter to her: I have just read your Spirit of Youth, and think it "simply great." Hard not to cry at certain pages! The fact is, Madam, that you are not like the rest of us, who SEEK the truth and TRY to express it. You INHABIT reality; and when you open your mouth truth can't help being uttered. I think that this book will have a great and vital influence.