Whiskey breakfast : my Swedish family, my American life / Richard C. Lindberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindberg, Richard C., 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swedish Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.

Swedish Americans.

Chicago (Ill.)--Biography.

Chicago (Ill.).

Lindberg, Richard C., 1953---Childhood and youth.

Lindberg, Richard C.

Lindberg, Richard C., 1953---Family.

Lindbergh family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chicago in the 1920s. Clark Street was the city's last Swedetown, the locus of Swedish community life in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. It represented a way station for a generation of working-class immigrants escaping the hardships of the old country for the promise of a brighter new day. For Lindberg, whose Swedish immigrant parents and grandparents settled there, it was also the staging ground for an intensely personal, multigenerational, coming-of-age drama based on the struggles of two disparate families-- their dreams and their depravities, their victories and their failures.

Contents:

Sweden and the sorrows

Two men from Swedetown

The opposite side of the tracks

The shadows of despair

Feeding the sparrows

Oscar and Evelyn and Charley

A picnic, a proposal, a passage

Charity begins at home

The crying game

The house that was not a home

The shook-up generation

Custody visits

Slam books and second chances

A child of Clubland

The taming of the Swede

Love is for barflies

A worker of the world

Ashes to ashes: and back to Ronneby

A Wayne King lullaby

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4591-8

0-8166-7829-4

OCLC:

755415632