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English
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In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day.
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries...
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries...
9) Chutzpah
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
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A provocative reflection on his generation of Jews in America: about the changes they have witnessed, the changes they have created, and the changes that must still take place.
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Publisher
LA Weekly Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Chicano. Cubano. Pachuco. Nuyorican. Puerto Rican. Boricua. Quisqueya. Tejano.
To be Latino in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has meant to fierce identification with roots, with forbears, with the language, art and food your people came here with. America is a patchwork of Hispanic sensibilities-from Puerto Rican nationalists in New York to more newly arrived Mexicans in the Rio Grande valley, that has so far resisted...