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American Mosaic The Immigrant Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It

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Full Title

American Mosaic The Immigrant Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It

Author(s)

Joan Morrison, Charlotte Fox Zabusky

Edition
ISBN

9780822980193, 9780822954880, 9780822937531

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This extraordinary work of oral history captures the immense drama and full dimensions of the American immigrant experience. The men and women who tell their stories include such famous names as Alistair Cooke, W. Michael Blumenthal, Edward Teller, and Lynn Redgrave. But they share these pages with 136 other people whose stories are equally compelling: a Jewish former sweatshop worker and union organizer, a Scandanavian homesteader, a Polish coal miner, an anti-Nazi refugee, a Japanese war bride, a Mexican migrant worker, a Cuban exile, a South African interracial couple, a Soviet dissident, and many more. They reveal the mingled joy and pain, hardship and triumph that were and are part of the glowing dream and fearful gamble of a new life in a new land. They offer unique understanding not only of the makeup but of the meaning of America.