Readers who are primarily interested in Addams’ life, particularly in its more private aspects, should turn to Gioia Diliberto’s biography “A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams ...

The Early Life of Jane Addams.” “It was only when she started messing in men’s affairs that she got controversial.” Later in her life, with the country gripped in the Depression ...

Look for deeper connections, rather than flitting through life without engagement ... to follow in the initial footsteps of Jane Addams, who funded her early work at Hull-House out of her own ...