Bøger af Jerre Mangione

Almost 7000 authors--including Richard Wright, John Cheever, and Saul Bellow--were employed by this federal program, which saved many literary careers during the Depression and which also produced the best state guidebooks ever written.

From the early Italian adventurers who played an important role in the European expansion across the Atlantic to the political and business leaders of the 1990s, this book tells a dramatic story. The heart of the story is the mass migration that took place between 1880 and 1924, when a whole culture left its ancient roots to settle in the cities and towns of America.