An Ethnic At Large
A Memoir of America in the Thirties and Forties
by Jerre Mangione
378 pages· 2001· ISBN 9780815607168
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This is a reprint of the volume previously published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, in 1978. In this autobiography, Mangione (emeritus, English, U. of Pennsylvania) describes his experiences of growing up Sicilian in Rochester, his post-college years living in New York City and Greenwich Village, coming into adulthood in the 1930s and 1940s, coming to terms with his ethnicity, the struggles of becoming a writer, and his invitation to the White House in 1944 as a guest of Eleanor Roosevelt. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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