IMMIGRANT'S RETURN. (First Edn., First prtg.)

by Pellegrini, Angelo M

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1951. Hardcover; blue spine faded; spine ends worn; otherwise, condition good.. Autobiography of 45-year-old Univ. of Washington [State} Prof who visited the rural Italy he left at age 9 in 1913. He recalls the work ethic & aversion to waste that were fundamental to survival; how he & his family came as steerage class to find U.S. abundance; working to `fit in'; lauds his dedicated teachers. ||| Visiting Italy, he sees centuries-old attitudes--haughty upper class & subservient poor; politicians & their odd bedfellows; the grip of Religion, tempered by reality of daily life. ||| Book helps to explain aspirations & realities familiar to many immigrants & their first- (sometimes even their second-) generation children.