La Merica - Hardcover

Michael La Sorte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877223823 ISBN 13: 9780877223825

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1985

Synopsis

Uses diaries, letters, selections from autobiographies, and statistical documents to describe the experiences of Italian immigrants in the United States prior to World War I, and explains how they adapted to their new lives

About this title

From the Publisher

A powerful, moving picture painted by the narratives of first generation Italian Americans

From the Inside Flap

"La Sorte aims to flesh out the immigrant experience in a way that more analytical and statistical studies have failed to do, and he succeeds to an extraordinary extent."
—Contemporary Sociology

"His [Michael La Sorte's] book is full of personal stories, unencumbered by theories of immigrant history, of the men and women who came to a strange land with little money, no knowledge of the language, and only the slightest concept of exactly how they would survive.... His tale is both sad and inspirational."
—The Boston Globe

"...a brilliantly conceived and executed book, profoundly moving. It will haunt me."
—Bart Giamatti, former President, Yale University

"...intimate and authentic."
—Gay Talese, The New York Times Book Review

"...A scholarly gem."
—Professor Jerre Mangione

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877223823
• ISBN 13: 9780877223825
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 249