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The life stories of undistinguished Americans as told by themselves / Hamilton Holt ; with a new introduction by Werner Sollors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities--United States--Biography.
- Minorities.
- United States--Biography.
- United States.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- United States--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- Expanded ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent, collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people--new immigrants and sharecroppers, cooks and fishermen, women and men working in sweatshops, in the city, and on the land. First published in 1906, and reissued a decade ago, this new edition of Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans is expanded to include lives Holt did not include in his original selection, as well as a new preface by Werner Sollors.
- Contents:
- The life stories of undistinguished Americans as told by themselves; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction by Werner Sollors (1999); Note by Hamilton Holt (1906); Introduction by Edwin E.Slosson (1906); 1. The Life Story of a Lithuanian; 2. The Life Story of a Polish Sweatshop Girl; 3. The Life Story of an Italian Bootblack; 4. The Life Story of a Greek Peddler; 5. The Life Story of a Swedish Farmer; 6. The Life Story of a French Dressmaker; 7. The Life Story of a German Nurse Girl; 8. The Life Story of an Irish Cook; 9. The Life Story of a Farmer's Wife
- 10. The Life Story of an Itinerant Minister11. The Life Story of a Negro Peon; 12. The Life Story of an Indian; 13. The Life Story of an Igorrote Chief; 14. The Life Story of a Syrian; 15. The Life Story of a Japanese Servant; 16. The Life Story of a Chinaman; 17. The Life Story of a Florida Sponge Fisherman; 18. The Life Story of a Hungarian Peon; 19. The Life Story of a Southern White Woman; 20. The Life Story of a Southern Colored Woman; 21. A Northern Negro's Autobiography; 22. Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of a Eurasian; 23. The Story of Two Moonshiners
- 24. The Experiences of a Chorus Girl25. Autobiography of a Football Player; 26. The Confessions of a Woman Professor; 27. The Story of the Waitress; Bibliography; Acknowledgments
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-559-31116-8
- 1-135-95979-X
- 1-280-40714-X
- 9786610407149
- 0-203-90190-8
- 0-203-90191-6
- 9780203901908
- OCLC:
- 52098512
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