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

by Joan Morrison and Charlotte Fox Zabusky
American Mosaic: The Immigrant Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It

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ISBN13: 9780822954880
ISBN10: 0822954885



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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.

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"The reasons immigrants came to America are as varied as the countries whence they came. Starting in the early 1900's to the present, these people tell their tale. The circumstances that drove them to find a new start and what they found are told in detail. The book is a refreshing presentation of the facts without analysis." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)

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"A triumph. . . . Consistently fascinating and consistently rich in significant details about the great and complex story of immigration to the United States and adaptation to American life."

—New York Times Book Review

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"Powerful, dramatic, fascinating. . . . You have the feeling as you read across the extraordinary breadth of time, nationality and experience represented here that you are getting a grip on the real America: thrilling, depressing, frightening, gentle, crass, confusing, endearing, impersonal, vulgar, idealistic. In short, as diverse as the millions who have experienced and enriched it."

—Boston Globe

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“A powerful collection of oral histories which captures the immense drama and the amazing expanse of the American immigrant experience. Their vivid stories of love, adventure, tragedy, and triumph depict the human side immigration and reveal the rich ethnic heritage that lies in the background of every American.”

—Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly

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American Mosaic presents the recollections of 140 immigrants from six continents and fifty countries who have settled all across the United States.

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Joan Morrison, a frequent contributor on the social sciences to the New York Times among other publications, teaches at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Charlotte Fox Zabusky supervises an English as a Second Language program for refugees.


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ISBN:
9780822954880
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
10/07/1993
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
Series info:
Pittsburgh Series in Social & Labor History
Language:
English
Edition:
2
Pages:
480
Height:
1.02IN
Width:
6.05IN
Thickness:
1.00
LCCN:
92050274
Series:
Pitts Series in Social and Labor History
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1993
Author:
Charlotte Fox Zabusky
Author:
Charlotte Fox Zabusky
Author:
David Morrison
Author:
Joan Morrison
Author:
Morrison
Foreword:
Oscar Handlin
Author:
David Ed. Morrison
Author:
Charlotte FoxZabusky
Subject:
Immigrants
Subject:
US History-General
Subject:
Emigration and immigration

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