Special sorrows : the diasporic imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish immigrants in the United States /
Conventional wisdom would have us believe that every immigrant to the United States "became American," by choice and with deliberate speed. Yet, as Special Sorrows shows us, this is simply untrue. In this compelling revisionist study, Matthew Frye Jacobson reveals tenacious attachments to...
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Cambridge :
Harvard University Press,
1995.
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