An American in the Making

An American in the Making
Author: M. E. Ravage
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2009-05-19
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0813548667

At the turn of the twentieth century, M. E. Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who, like millions of others from eastern and southern Europe, were lured by tales of worldly success. Seventeen years after arriving on Ellis Island, Ravage had mastered a new language, found success in college, and engagingly penned in English this vivid account of the ordeals and pleasures of departure and assimilation. Steven G. Kellman brings Ravage's story to life again in this new edition, providing a brief biography and introduction that place the memoir within historical and literary contexts. An American in the Making contributes to a broader understanding of the global notion of "America" and remains timely, especially in an era when massive immigration, now from Latin America and Asia, challenges ideas of national identity.

An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant

An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant
Author: M E 1884-1965 Ravage
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-10-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780342633944

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The Making of an American

The Making of an American
Author: Jacob A. Riis
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2023-09-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3387049730

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

The Making of the American Essay

The Making of the American Essay
Author: John D'Agata
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 821
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1555977340

"Now, with "The making of the American essay' the editor includes selections ranging from Anne Bradstreet's secular prayers to Washington Irving's satires, Emily Dickinson's love letters to Kenneth Goldsmith's catalog's, Gertrude Stein's portraits to James Baldwin's and Norman Mailer's mediations on boxing. In this volume the editor uncovers new stories in the American essay's past and shows us that some of the most fiercely daring writers in the American literary canon have turned to the essay in order to produce some of our culture's most exhilarating art."-- book jacket.

Making an American Festival

Making an American Festival
Author: Chiou-ling Yeh
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2008-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520253515

This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States—the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco—opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. In a vividly detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, Chiou-ling Yeh explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their beginning in 1953, they developed as a result of Chinese business community ties with American culture, business, and politics. What emerges is a fascinating picture of how an ethnic community shaped and was shaped by transnational and national politics, economics, ethnic movements, feminism, and queer activism.

American Made

American Made
Author: Dan DiMicco
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137279796

The chairman of America's most successful steel company dismantles myths about the decline of American industry

L.L. Bean

L.L. Bean
Author: Leon A. Gorman
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781578511839

Looks at the history of the successful mail-order company, the challenges it faces, and its evolution since its start in 1912.

John James Audubon

John James Audubon
Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2004-10-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1400043778

John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country–often alone and on foot–to render his avian subjects on paper. The works of art he created gave the world its idea of America. They gave America its idea of itself. Here Richard Rhodes vividly depicts Audubon’s life and career: his epic wanderings; his quest to portray birds in a lifelike way; his long, anguished separations from his adored wife; his ambivalent witness to the vanishing of the wilderness. John James Audubon: The Making of an American is a magnificent achievement.