Leadership of the New America: Racial and Religious

(no dust jacket) [good-looking book, minor wear to extremities, former library possession stamp (crossed out) on front pastedown, gilt lettering on front cover and spine still bright and easily readable]. (B&W photographic plates, fold-out map) This survey of how immigrant communities with origins in southern and eastern Europe address issues of leadership "was done with the hope that it might throw some light on the perplexing problem of the training of Protestant religious leaders for work among our immigrant population" (a preoccupation more understandable when you consider that the survey was conducted under the auspices of the McCormick Theological Seminary). The methodology is described in the book's Preface: "Investigations were carried on in many immigrant communities from the Atlantic to the Pacific, where mines, mills, homes, schools, churches, labor meetings, national and social gatherings were visited. Personal interviews were held with several hundred leaders among the immigrants. Included in this number were government officials, settlement workers, priests, Protestant pastors, freethinkers, foreign-language newspaper editors, socialists, I.W.W. leaders, saloonkeepers, doctors, lawyers and many others." The sixteen nationalities on whom data was gathered are divided into three groups: Slavic European; Non-Slavic European; and Asiatic. American secular and religious immigrant leaders were consulted and are given their own section. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction.".…