Libro Irish America: Coming Into Clover De Maureen Dezell

portada Irish America: Coming Into Clover

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Anchor

Autor

Maureen Dezell

Año

2002

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

038549596X

ISBN13

9780385495967

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Historia de américa

Irish America: Coming Into Clover

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Reseña del libro "Irish America: Coming Into Clover"

Old-time politics, piety, and St. Patrick’s Day parades loom large when the Irish come to the American mind. None truly represents the complex legacy or contributions of the nation’s oldest ethnic group, who rank among the most highly educated and affluent Americans today. In Irish America, Maureen Dezell takes a new and invigorating look at Americans of Irish Catholic ancestry—who they are, and how they got that way. A welcome antidote to so many standard-issue, sentimental representations of the Irish in the United States, Irish America focuses on popular culture as well as politics; the Irish in the Midwest and West as well as the East; the “new Irish” immigrants; the complicated role of the Church today; and the unheralded heritage of Irish American women. Deftly weaving history, reporting, and the observations of more than 100 men and women of Irish descent on both sides of the Atlantic, Dezell presents an insightful and highly readable portrait of a people and a culture.