The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day
by Stephen Puleo
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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 show more the Depression and World War II; and chronicles their rich history in Boston up to the present day. show lessTags
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Stephen Puleo is an award-winning newspaper reporter who now works in corporate public relations in Boston. He has a master's degree in history, has done extensive research on Boston's North End, where the molasses flood took place, and has been a contributor to American History magazine. He lives in the Boston area.
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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- 974.4 — History & geography History of North America Northeastern United States (New England and Middle Atlantic states) Massachusetts
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- F73.9 .I8 .P855 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history Massachusetts
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