The Immigrant Experience

The Immigrant Experience

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Nine narratives by immigrants and their descendants illuminate the experience of becoming American. Contributors include Czeslaw Milosz, and Mario Puzo.The Immigrant ExperienceIntroduction Thomas C. Wheeler

1. Pride and Poverty: An Irish Integrity
William Alfred

2. Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell’s Kitchen
Mario Puzo

3. Pioneers to Eternity: Norwegians on the Prairie
Eugene Boe

4. Halfway to Dick and Jane: A Puerto Rican Pilgrimage
Jack Agueros

5. Puritans from the Orient: A Chinese Evolution
Jade Snow Wong

6. Time and Tide: Roots and Black Awareness
John A. Williams

7. America, the Thief: A Jewish Search for Freedom
Harry Roskolenko

8. The Center of Impermanence: New York in the Eyes of an Englishman
Alan Pryce-Jones

9. Biblical Heirs and Modern Evils: A Polish Poet in California
Czeslaw Milosz

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Weight 6.2 oz
Dimensions 0.5100 × 5.5000 × 7.8000 in
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