Drawing extensively on the files of La Gazzetta as well
as the personal papers of its legendary editor and publisher, James
V. Donnaruma, and on his own family''s memories, Puleo has crafted
an unsparing, but mostly admiring, account of a colorful and
vibrant community as it battled for social acceptance and political
recognition.—Michael Kenney, Boston Sunday Globe
"As you flip the pages of The Boston Italians, you can
practically smell the sauce simmering on the stove. It''s not a dull
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內容簡介:
In this lively and engaging history, Stephen Puleo tells the
story of the Boston Italians from their earliest years, when a
largely illiterate and impoverished people in a strange land
recreated the bonds of village and region in the cramped quarters
of the North End. Focusing on this first and crucial Italian
enclave in Boston, Puleo describes the experience of Italian
immigrants as they battled poverty, illiteracy, and prejudice;
explains their transformation into Italian Americans during the
Depression and World War II; and chronicles their rich history in
Boston up to the present day.
關於作者:
Stephen Puleo is author of the Boston
Globe best seller The Boston Italians and the critically
acclaimed Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of
1919. A former award-winning newspaper reporter and contributor
to American History magazine, he holds a master''s degree in
history and wrote his thesis on Italian immigration and the
settlement of Boston''s North End. He donates a portion of his book
proceeds to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation JDRF, the
leading charitable funder and advocate of juvenile Type 1
diabetes research. He and his wife, Kate, live in Weymouth,
Massachusetts.