20 Years at Hull House vs County: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: Chicago, Biography & Memoir, History

20 Years at Hull House Jane Addams · 1910 481 pages · ≈ 8 h 54 m · Challenging

Jane Addams's narrative of life in an immigrant urban neighborhood provides students with an introduction to the issues of the Progressive era and the tenets of social activism. This new teaching edition reduces…

Social conditions Nonfiction Classic Literature Fiction

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County Ansell, David MD · 2010 221 pages · ≈ 4 h 06 m · Moderate

"The amazing tale of "County" is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From it's inception as a "Poor House" dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago's Cook County Hospital has…

Physicians New York Times reviewed

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The verdict

County is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 8 for 20 Years at Hull House.

How to choose

Want a one-evening read? County ≈ 4h vs 8h for 20 Years at Hull House New to the genre? County Moderate vs Challenging for 20 Years at Hull House

Reception

	20 Years at Hull House	County
Editions	115	6
Wikipedia attention	—	7661
Pages	481	221

20 Years at Hull House vs County: Which Should You Read?

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