"The excellent photographs in the book compliment its greatest strengths-the description of the street traders, including the newsies, and the author's intelligent stress on the way in which children learn to carve out their turf for work and play. In spirited prose spiced with nearly 70 contemporary photographs Nasaw transports the reader back. "This rousing story of youngsters working and playing in American cities at the turn of the century is beautifully done. " Children of the City paints a vivid picture of child life in American city streets between 19. "Mining a rich lode of primary source material, from reformers' records to oral histories and autobiographies, Nasaw captures an exuberant generation of children with a unique place in history." -Psychology Today And, as any old fan of the Little Rascals or the Bowery Boys can attest, there is something irresistible about tales of kids holding their own, and better, in a big-city adult world.” -People Magazine Most of Nasaw’s best anecdotes come from show business biographies-George Burns, Phil Silvers and Milton Berle, for instance. has amassed a surprising amount of information about the lives of working-class city children from the turn of the century. "A skillfully written, engrossing and memorable portrait of a unique moment in American life." - Los Angeles Times
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