The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves

ISBN 10: 041592510X / ISBN 13: 9780415925105

Published by Routledge, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041592510X
• ISBN 13: 9780415925105
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent, collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people--new immigrants and sharecroppers, cooks and fishermen, women and men working in sweatshops, in the city, and on the land. First published in 1906, and reissued a decade ago, this new edition of Life Stories of UndistinguishedAmericans is expanded to include lives Holt did not include in his original selection, as well as a new preface by Werner Sollors.

About the Author

In addition to a career as a newspaper editor, Hamilton Holt was a supporter of Zora Neale Hurston and President of Rollins College.,
Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature, Professor of Afro-American Studies, and Chair of the History of American Civilization Program at Harvard University. His books include Beyond Ethnicity and The Invention of Ethnicity.