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21. Jane Addams: Pioneer Social Worker
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22. Jane Addams: Nobel Prize Winner
 
23. Jane Addams on Education (Classics
 
24. Jane Addams (Makers of America)
 
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25. Jane Addams and the Liberal Tradition.
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26. Jane Addams: A Biography
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27. Peace and Bread: The Story of
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28. Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle
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29. Embodied Care: Jane Addams, Maurice
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30. The Education of Jane Addams (Politics
 
31. Social Thought of Jane Addams
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32. A Useful Woman : The Early Life
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33. Jane Addams: A Writer's Life
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34. Jane Addams (Compass Point Early
 
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35. Jane Addams (American Lives (Heinemann
 
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36. Jane Addams (American Women of
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37. Jane Addams: Social Reformer and
 
38. Jane Addams (People Who Made a
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39. With One Bold Act, The Story of
 
40. Jane Addams, Pioneer for Social

21. Jane Addams: Pioneer Social Worker (Community Builders)
by Charnan Simon
Paperback: 43 Pages (1998-03)
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Presents the life of the woman whose devotion to social work led to her establishing Hull House in Chicago and who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Great Quick Read
Great quick read when someone needs or wants to know more than what the textbooks teach!

5-0 out of 5 stars Jane Addams: Pioneer Social Worker Review
This book was an easy read. It had lots of great pictures of Jane and her contributions.There was lots of information about her life and her contributions to the community. Her constent desire to help those in need was remarkable! ... Read more


22. Jane Addams: Nobel Prize Winner and Founder of Hull House (Historical American Biographies)
by Bonnie C. Harvey
Library Binding: 128 Pages (1999-07)
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Asin: 0766010945
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23. Jane Addams on Education (Classics in Education, No 51)
by Jane Addams
 Hardcover: 240 Pages (1985-08)
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Isbn: 0807727849
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24. Jane Addams (Makers of America)
by Jane Hovde
 Hardcover: 192 Pages (1989-06)
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Isbn: 0816015473
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25. Jane Addams and the Liberal Tradition.
by Jane Addams, Daniel Levine
 Hardcover: 277 Pages (1980-09-25)
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Jane Addams (1860-1935) is here portrayed as an important moving force in the transformation of America from rural and agricultural to urban and industrial, from laissez-faire to general welfare state. ... Read more


26. Jane Addams: A Biography
by James Linn
Paperback: 504 Pages (2000-05-11)
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Asin: 0252069048
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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3-0 out of 5 stars A Limited Biography
James Weber Linn's "Jane Addams: A Biography" is the story of the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The founder of the Settlement House Movement, she was famous for her nonviolent activism and socially progressive policies during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Today she is lauded as an instrumental figure in labor and welfare reform, women's rights, and activism for peace.

In his preface, James Weber Linn clearly explains that he intends his biography of Jane Addams to be simply the story of her life as opposed to an interpretation of her character and motivations. The value of his work is the authority and knowledge with which he writes Jane's story. Jane was his aunt, enabling him to draw on his personal relationship with her, an acquaintance of nearly 60 years, as well as to utilize all of the manuscripts, letters, and records that she passed on to him in her will. Moreover, according to Linn, Jane read, edited, and annotated the first eight chapters of the biography. This serves to authenticate the content of the biography, lending it an air of truth and honesty. However, Linn's relationship with Jane also indicates a bias in the writing of the biography that colors the presentation of the facts.

This biography is incredibly detailed, providing excellent descriptions of Jane's life and experiences. For anyone interested in studying Jane Addams or learning more about her work and accomplishments, I would certainly recommend this book as an excellent, reliable first source of information. However, Linn's writing style is somewhat dry, rambling, and tends to laud Jane slightly too often. I would caution the reader to perhaps balance this biography of Jane with a slightly more critical and less biased account of her life, as Linn clearly felt unmitigated admiration for his aunt. Additionally, because the book was published in the year of Jane's death, it does not have the advantage of retrospect or historical perspective. A more modern biography of Jane Addams would be able to convey to the reader the full impact Jane made upon subsequent political figures and social movements.

This text certainly endows the reader with a deep sense of respect for Jane Addams. Linn does an excellent job of conveying her intense selflessness and active involvement in political and social reform, an especially astonishing circumstance given the lack of freedom and social mobility for women during that time period. However, his view is somewhat limited because of his relationship with Jane and the strong regard he had for her. Moreover, though Linn states that his book is meant to be merely the story of Jane's life, I would have appreciated more analysis and interpretation. The value of the book is lessened precisely because it lacks critical scrutiny. And, as I stated earlier, the book would also be much more useful if it included the historical perspective of Jane's life as well as a retrospective analysis of her achievements in modern context. I would recommend the interested person to balance a reading of this text with one of the many excellent, more recent biographies of Jane Addams, written by authors such as Louise W. Knight, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Allen F. Davis, and Dennis and Judith Fradin.

5-0 out of 5 stars Great Bio, Towering Figure
This biography has an advantage over all other biographies of Addams: it was written not too long after her death by a family member that knew her well. Furthermore, Weber Linn was an English scholar, so his writing style is very refined and easy to read. Despite its complete lack of citations, the author is very objective to the subject at hand. The end result is a very intimate portrait of one (if not the) most amazing woman in American History. Some of the larger aspects of her life included: forming the Women's League for Peace in WWI, winning the Nobel Peace Prize, setting off the Settlement house movement in United States, and being blacklisted by the House for Un-American Activities (yes, she was that cool!). The greatness of Jane Addams is to be found in the details, however, and this book provides the reader with just that.An amazing life, well told. ... Read more


27. Peace and Bread: The Story of Jane Adams (Trailblazer Biographies)
by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Hardcover: 112 Pages (1993-09)
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28. Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy
by Louise W. Knight
Hardcover: 598 Pages (2005-11-15)
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Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Citizen, Louise W. Knight's masterful biography, reveals Addams's early development as a political activist and social philosopher.In this book we observe a powerful mind grappling with the radical ideas of her age, most notably the ever-changing meanings of democracy.

Citizen covers the first half of Addams's life, from 1860 to 1899. Knight recounts how Addams, a child of a wealthy family in rural northern Illinois, longed for a life of larger purpose. She broadened her horizons through education, reading, and travel, and, after receiving an inheritance upon her father's death, moved to Chicago in 1889 to co-found Hull House, the city's first settlement house. Citizen shows vividly what the settlement house actually was—a neighborhood center for education and social gatherings—and describes how Addams learned of the abject working conditions in American factories, the unchecked power wielded by employers, the impact of corrupt local politics on city services, and the intolerable limits placed on women by their lack of voting rights. These experiences, Knight makes clear, transformed Addams. Always a believer in democracy as an abstraction, Addams came to understand that this national ideal was also a life philosophy and a mandate for civic activism by all.

As her story unfolds, Knight astutely captures the enigmatic Addams's compassionate personality as well as her flawed human side. Written in a strong narrative voice, Citizen is an insightful portrait of the formative years of a great American leader.
“Knight’s decision to focus on Addams’s early years is a stroke of genius. We know a great deal about Jane Addams the public figure. We know relatively little about how she made the transition from the 19th century to the 20th. In Knight’s book, Jane Addams comes to life. . . . Citizen is written neither to make money nor to gain academic tenure; it is a gift, meant to enlighten and improve. Jane Addams would have understood.”—Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review

“My only complaint about the book is that there wasn’t more of it. . . .Knight honors Addams as an American original.”—Kathleen Dalton, Chicago Tribune

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5-0 out of 5 stars An American Hero
This is a book about a woman who made a difference. It is also the story of a woman's triumph over Victorian ideas about a woman's place and over personal uncrtainties. Jane Addams became a leading humanitarian and spokesperson for women but she also led struggles which enhanced the notion of democracy in this country and the world. Ms. Addams did not see democracy as neoconservatives seeit today. She was not a fighter for capitalism or Republican values but rather for participation and inclusion. She was also a crusader for world peace.

Jane Addams and her colleagues were not like 21st century Americans. She was practically humorless and was moved by moral imperatives almost unknown to us. However,she, aside from being the "real thing", was famous for her kindness to immigrants and children.

This book deals with her early life and her humanitarian efforts in the United States. It discusses the founding of Hull House, one of the first settlement houses in this country, and relates the operation of Hull House to the awakening of Addams' interest in many important causes.

The book is a good read for those who are interested in women's history or in the history of reform and, indeed, radicalism in this country (for she was a radical). It is well researched and written and does not try to turn Addams into a midwestern Mother Teresa. ... Read more


29. Embodied Care: Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Feminist Ethics
by Maurice Hamington
Hardcover: 200 Pages (2004-06-09)
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30. The Education of Jane Addams (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
by Victoria Bissell Brown
Hardcover: 432 Pages (2003-10)
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Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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The Education of Jane Addams traces, with unprecedented care, Addams's three-decade journey from a privileged prairie girlhood through her years as the competent spinster daughter in a demanding family after her father's death to her early seasoning on the Chicago reform scene. It weaves her spiritual struggles with Christianity into her political struggles with elitism and her emotional struggles with intimacy. Finally, it reveals the logic of her journey to Chicago and makes biographical sense of the political and personal choices she made once she arrived there. The founder of Chicago's Hull-House and, later, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is portrayed here as a complicated young woman who summoned the energy to pursue public life, the honesty to admit her own arrogance, and the imagination to see joy in collective endeavor.

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2-0 out of 5 stars James Weber Linn's"Jane Addams" is better
Victoria Brown's book on Jane Addams is a well written 421 page book with some photos.298 pages are text and pages 299 to 399 are notes.There is a selected bibliography and an index.I liked the photos and as mentioned the writing style.The bookmoves nicely.She gives credit to the work publishing the Jane Addams papers by Mary Bryan.But let us look at the title, The Education of Jane Addams.It almost mirror's the title by Gloria Dilberto, "A useful woman, the early life of Jane Addams."The Dilberto books was published in 1999.There are no new primary sources made available between the two publication dates.Dilberto writes as well as Brown and cites the sources better including Ron Beam's booklet.

But Brown is wise enough, unlike Dilberto,to note the utter complete lack of evidence pointing to a close physical relationship between Jane Addams and her intimate associates including Ellen Star and others.She wisely covers the subject in a foot note.She would be wiser still not to bring it up at all.Does the modern progressive nature of academic publishing by an academic press require a mention at all. Brown writes "[ I] must decline to define either Addams or Starr as lesbians simply because we do not have evidence of genital contact...." She then goes on for another whole single spaced page citing supposed sources about women'srelationships. I sense she cut even more speculation on the topic then she printed. Such diversions might help sell the book to the faculty at Grinnell, and Oberlin but the truth of the matter is that the wildest rumor and speculation about a historical person now can be published in an academic press and passed off as history.Better to save the trees. Better to put the writing talent to romance novels.

James Weber Linn's "Jane Addams" 1935,is also well written, more informative, and does not need to be censored. It has good photos.It is in all respects a better book.I also call to your attention if you wish to read the papers without the speculation, the Selected Papers of Jane Addams Volume 1, Preparing to lead 1860-81,edited by Mary Bryan, Barbara Blair and Maree De Angurypublished by University of Illinois Press.

5-0 out of 5 stars Definitive Biography
Victoria Brown has written the definitive biography of Addams to date.She takes advantage of recent discoveries and her own meticulous research to write the best intellectual biography of Addams available.Brown deals with controversial aspects of Addams life with neither the sexism of some of Addams's biographers nor the romanticization of others.Those who think they know Addams will find new insights and readers not familiar with Addams will discover one of the most important figures of the 20th century.Wonderful photographs and thorough citations.

5-0 out of 5 stars Intriguing biography
This clear and accessible biography offers an intriguing examination of Jane Addams' early life and social and political ideals. The tone of affectionate even-handedness captures Addams' personality and makes her real to the reader. The book is thorough and carefully researched. ... Read more


31. Social Thought of Jane Addams (American Heritage Series (Indianapolis, Ind.).)
by Jane Addams, Christopher Lasch
 Paperback: 266 Pages (1982-07)
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Isbn: 082900338X
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32. A Useful Woman : The Early Life of Jane Addams
by Gioia Diliberto
Hardcover: 320 Pages (1999-07-07)
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Asin: 0684853655
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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The story of settlement house pioneer Jane Addams's early life traces a trajectory that has become almost a feminist cliché. The frustrated Victorian spinster, plagued by mysterious physical ailments, finds a socially useful outlet for her intelligence and energy and her illnesses vanish--she becomes the picture of health and contentment. Familiar though it is in outline, the particulars of Addams's personal history are fascinating, especially as related in veteran biographer Gioia Diliberto's engaging, accessible style. Young Jane comes to life as a powerful personality notable for her "cool intellect." As a schoolgirl she was already convinced that "her life would not be ordinary." The author does a subtle job of assessing the psychological roots of Addams's empathy with the poor and commitment to social justice without scanting the integrity of her ethical convictions. And Diliberto's familiarity with contemporary scholarship shows in her lucid summary of the trends in religious and philanthropic beliefs that led Addams to found Hull-House in 1889 to help poor people better themselves; yet she wears her learning lightly in a lively text. The main narrative closes in 1899, with Hull-House thriving and 39-year-old Jane happily involved in a relationship with Mary Rozet Smith that endured until Smith's death in 1934. (Addams survived her by only a year.) This is a model of popular, undogmatic feminist biography. --Wendy Smith Book Description
The first biography in twenty-six years of Jane Addams -- founder of the Hull-House settlement and winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize -- written with access to hundreds of new family documents. "Today, Jane Addams is widely recognized as an extraordinary figure in our nation's history, one of a roster of great Americans -- Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. among them -- who made lasting contributions to social justice. But as with the lives of many iconographic figures, the legend often obscures the real story." Frequently recognized as one of the most influential women of the century -- and considered a heroine by nurses and social workers around the globe -- Jane Addams had to struggle long and hard to earn her place in history. Born in 1860 on the eve of the Civil War, she lived during pivotal times when women were only beginning to create new roles for themselves (ironically building on the Victorian ideal of women as ministering angels). Focusing on her metamorphosis from a frail, small-town girl into a woman who inspired hundreds of others to join her movement to serve the poor, A Useful Woman delves into the mysterious ailments and other troubles young Jane faced. Examining for the first time Jane's physical and mental health and the effect of her father's remarriage after her mother's death, biographer Gioia Diliberto directly links Addams's proneness to depression to her inability to conform to the mores of her time. Also, for the first time, she examines in detail Addams's two marriage-like relationships with women.With hundreds of previously unavailable documents at her disposal, Diliberto has written a fascinating study of one of the most intriguing and important women in history, concentrating on her difficult formative years with compelling -- and groundbreaking -- results. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Great social history
A Useful Woman provides not only an outstanding biography of Jane Addams but gives wonderful insights into the role of women and the impact of the women's college movement in the 19th century. Diliberto does an excellent job of explaining the options open to women and how a well-educated woman like Jane had few outlets. The women Jane became involved with, both friends and sponsors, were fascinating as well, and I found myself wanting to know more about this important period in women's history.

1-0 out of 5 stars author out of mind
The liberal feminine look on Jane Addams rings false to me. Jane Addams was from a much different time. She was from the victorian era. She was from the liberal protestant part of the culture. The hints of this writer reflect the narrow view of the few of today's citizens. But in the end, make no mistake, Jane Addams was a very proper person from her time. She was of course not sexually active outside of marriage. She was not sexually attracted to women. The problem with facts is that they do not change.

5-0 out of 5 stars About A Woman Who Wanted to Make the World Better
Womens' lives are often filled with many tasks, and to become an international social reformer is very difficult to include.This is the story of one woman who wanted a life that was different from the traditional woman of her age.And the interesting part of the story is that she did become an internationally known social reformer.And she did win a Nobel Peace Prize.In our age of supporting choices for women, this book is not only about a 'useful' woman, it is also a very useful story.

4-0 out of 5 stars A well-written biography
It bothers me to hear A USEFUL WOMAN described as a "feminist biography" just because the subject bucked the gender norms of her Victorian times.This book is about a social force and conscience, Jane Addams, whose intelligence, spirituality, generosity and, yes, unmarried status drove her to found Hull-House, a "settlement" in Chicago that served as both haven and learning center for the indigent, with a particular emphasis on aiding women and children.Addams, a frail woman suffering from lifelong ailments including depression, rose above her infirmities to enact social change and awareness during a time when many of the poor were seen as morally bankrupt individuals and not the victims of a socially unjust system.

The book is well-written and accessible, and suffers only rarely from too much trivial detail.Diliberto provides remarkable insight into this remarkable woman.If you are at all interested in social causes and the people behind them, read this biography.It is truly inspiring to read of how one woman changed the course of many lives.

5-0 out of 5 stars What a Biography Should Be
Although a lover of biographies, even I was surprised when I couldn't put this book down.Diliberto has written a compelling and thoughtful study of Jane Addams, but managed to interweave her character analysis seamlesslyinto the social issues of the age.From women's rights to labor issues,Chicago corruption to pacificism, the author glides easily from socialissue to personal insight.Jane emerges as a real individual, not an"angel", but someone to be greatly admired. ... Read more


33. Jane Addams: A Writer's Life
by Katherine Joslin
Hardcover: 328 Pages (2004-09-08)
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34. Jane Addams (Compass Point Early Biographies, 3)
by Lucia Raatma
Library Binding: 32 Pages (2003-12)
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35. Jane Addams (American Lives (Heinemann Library (Firm)).)
by Elizabeth Raum
 Paperback: 32 Pages (2004-05)
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36. Jane Addams (American Women of Achievement)
by Mary Kittredge
 Library Binding: 111 Pages (1988-03)
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37. Jane Addams: Social Reformer and Nobel Prize Winner (Spirit of America, Our People)
by Pam Rosenberg
Library Binding: 32 Pages (2003-08)
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Introduces the life and accomplishments of social reformer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jane Addams. ... Read more


38. Jane Addams (People Who Made a Difference)
by David Armentrout, Patricia Armentrout
 Hardcover: 24 Pages (2001-09)
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Isbn: 1589520548
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39. With One Bold Act, The Story of Jane Addams
by Barbara Garland Polikoff
Paperback: 304 Pages (1999-09-01)
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The life of Jane Addams from birth in tiny Cedarville in 1860 to the culmination of her career, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in l933.Original material included from taped accounts of her apprenticeship and friendship with Jane Addams by Sadie Garland Dreikurs, the author's aunt. ... Read more


40. Jane Addams, Pioneer for Social Justice; A Biography,
by Cornelia Lynde Meigs
 Hardcover: 274 Pages (1970-06)
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Isbn: 0316565911
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