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Carregando... Toward a better life : America's new immigrants in their own words : from Ellis Island to the presentde Peter Morton Coan
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This book offers a balanced, poignant, and often moving portrait of America's immigrants over more than a century. The author has organized the book by decades so that readers can easily find the time period most relevant to their experience or that of family members. The first part covers the Ellis Island era, the second part America's new immigrants--from the closing of Ellis Island in 1955 to the present. Also included is a comprehensive appendix of statistics showing immigration by country and decade from 1890 to the present, a complete list of famous immigrants, and much more. This rewarding, engrossing volume documents the diverse mosaic of America in the words of the people from many lands, who for more than a century have made our country what it is today. It distills the larger, hot-topic issue of national immigration down to the personal level of the lives of those who actually lived it. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Surprisingly, as a whole I found the introductory material more interesting than the personal accounts. Many of the personal accounts of the early immigrants were relatively short, and the immigrants often talked more about what life was like in the “old” country than in the United States. The accounts of the later immigrants were more focused on experiences in this country, but tended to get too long and detailed.
The selection of immigrants included was somewhat surprising when one considers the relatively small total number. For example, two members of the von Trapp family were included in the chapter for the 1930s, and two French chefs (Jacques Pepin in the 1950s and Andre Soltner in the 1960s) were included which I felt was one too many.
I found the lists of immigrants from the earlier periods more interesting than the latest lists. The earlier lists included immigrants from many fields of endeavor, and included people the reader might not have been aware were immigrants. Of course, for the last couple of decades the immigrants have not had very long to become famous, but they included mostly actors, actresses, and athletes many of whom were already well-known when they arrived. ( )