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La Storia : Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience (92 Edition)
by Jerre Mangione  Publisher Comments From the early Italian adventurers who played an important role in the European expansion across the Atlantic to the political and business leaders of the 1990s, this book tells a dramatic story. The heart of the story is the mass migration that took...
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The Right Thing to Do
by Josephine Hendin Publisher Comments Josephine Gattuso Hendin captures the New York Italian immigrant scene with startling precision, bringing to life the intricate web of a community's everyday transactions and exploring the multifaceted father-daughter relationship at the heart of the...
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Unto the Sons
by Gay Talese Publisher Comments "An Italian ROOTS." The Washington Post Book World At long last, Gay Talese, one of America's greatest living authors, employs his prodigious storytelling gifts to tell the saga of his own family's emigration to America from Italy in the years preceding...
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Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Life in Italian America
by Maria Laurino Synopsis In this thoughtful, penetrating, and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity, journalist and essayist Maria Laurino mixes memoir, social and cultural history, and reporting, as she sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian...
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Greece and Italy: Ancient Roots & New Beginnings
by Mario Aste Synopsis The XXXIII Conference of the American Italian Historical Asso-ciation was held in Lowell Massachusetts, where Greek immi-grants settled at the turn of the century and established a vibrant community. Italians from Calabria, Naples and Sicily soon...
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Dances with Luigi: A Grandson's Search for His Italian Roots
by Paul Paolicelli Publisher Comments In this spirited memoir, TV journalist Paul Paolicelli travels to Italy to dig up his ancestral roots. He roams through the countryside, visits ancient castles and village churches, and enjoys an Alessandria siesta. He finds long-lost cousins by day and...
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What Zizi Gave Honeyboy
by Gerald Celente 
Publisher Comments One recent spring Gerald Celente went to visit his cuddly eighty-three-year-old Italian aunt, Zizi, in Yonkers, New York. He was expecting the same delectable combination of food, friendship, and motherly love that Zizi had served up through the years at...
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Night Bloom: A Memoir
by Mary Cappello Book News Annotation Capello (English, University of Rhode Island) combines the bilingual journals of her grandfather, her mother's poetry, Sicilian folklore, and dreamwork with her own reminiscences of growing up in an immigrant family in a working-class suburb of...
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Leaving Little Italy: Essaying Italian American Culture (Suny Series in Italian/American Culture)
by Fred L Gardaphe Synopsis Provides an overview of the past, present and future of Italian American culture....
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Are Italians White? : How Race Is Made in America (03 Edition)
by Jennifer Guglielmo Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-314) and index....
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Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian-American Writers
by Lee Gutkind Publisher Comments Thoughtful, poignant, and hilarious personal essays collected by the editors of Creative Nonfiction explore the meanings of Italian-American identity. In the twenty-one nonfiction narratives collected in Our Roots Are Deep with Passion, established and...
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Boston's North End: Images and Recollections of an Italian-American Neighborhood
by Anthony V Riccio Publisher Comments Illustrated with 100 vintage photos of Boston's North End and the people who made it their home, this book offers a heartfelt and fascinating view of one of the last intact Italian-American neighborhoods in the United States. Written to fulfill the wish...
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The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from Theyears of the Great Immigration to the Present Day
by Stephan Puleo Publisher Comments The first history of the Boston Italians and how they transformed themselves and their city A Boston Globe Bestseller In this lively and engaging history, Stephen Puleo tells the story of the Boston Italians from their earliest years, when a largely...
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Feeling Italian : Art of Ethnicity in America (05 Edition)
by thomas J. Ferraro Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. Winner of a 2006 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation "Ferraro maintains a breezy, journalistic style that has produced an easy and entertaining read. His work may...
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Life Al Dente: Laughter and Love in an Italian-American Family
by Gina Cascone
Publisher Comments With the irreverence, gutsy spirit, and warmhearted hilarity that made Pagan Babies a classic, here is the Italian-American experience served up by the author who has been crowned the Patron Saint of Humor. Before the Sopranos, there were the Cascones.......
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The Italian American Reader
by Bill Tonelli Publisher Comments This anthology -- the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors -- is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner. A gathering of voices old and new, some speak in the accents of another age, some completely contemporary and assured...
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Were You Always an Italian? : Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America (00 Edition)
by Maria Laurino Synopsis A New York writer explores the disconnect that many Italian Americans, rootedin the rocky soil of Southern Italy, feel between images from Bensonhurst andMafia movies, on one hand, and Northern Italian style and verve on the other.224 pp....
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Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian-American Experience
by Mangione Book News Annotation Fleeing poverty in the Old Country, more than five million Italians immigrated to America between 1880 and 1924--to find hardship, prejudice, and eventually, assimilation. This expansive account of the their history (enlivened by personal narratives...
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The Italian American Family Album (American Family Albums)
by Dorothy Hoobler Publisher Comments An Italian immigrant says, "I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here, I found out three things: first, the streets weren't paved with gold; second, they weren't paved at all; and third, I was expected to pave...
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Italian Pride: 101 Reasons to Be Proud You're Italian
by Federico Moramarco Synopsis This exploration of all things Italian presents a combination tour guide, cookbook, and historical and biographical record, as well as a philosophical primer. Illustrations....
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