Remember This

A Family in America

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

The Mungellos (pronounced mun-JEL-os) were Italian-American children of Vesuvius. Raffaele was a builder, Marianna was a businesswoman, Filippo died in a gang murder in Pittsburgh. They fled the threats of the Black Hand, going to a booming coal-mining town and opening movie theaters. Dominic graduated from college during the Great Depression. The shadow of the gang pursued them, leading to labor disputes and arson which destroyed their new theater. On the East and West coasts, Evelyn and Marianne had simultaneous backstreet affairs with powerful and wealthy men. There was a murder trial for the questionable death of an adopted son from El Salvador. At Berkeley, David had an adulterous same-sex love affair with Carl Wittman, a national leader in SDS and Gay Liberation. Their love affairs projected them up the ladder of American success as they damned one another to their deaths. This is a true story.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-05-17
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:395 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:266
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780761867456

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Mer om författaren

D. E. Mungello is the grandson of Italian immigrants and a prominent historian. He is the author of nine books and has devoted much of the last fifteen years to researching and writing this memoir of his immigrant family.

Recensioner i media

Remember This is a sweeping saga of America in the 20th Century as seen through the lives of an immigrant family of ambition and character who let their dreams and their passions take them to the heights and at times close to the depths. It's also the well told, paradigmatic story of the author who found himself inside several dissident movements of the '60's and 70's and how he survived to make himself a family.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue1.Uncle Filippo’s Murder, 19192.Roots, 1884–19143,A Death in the Family, 1915–19444.Dreams and Feuds, 1941–19895. A Small Town in Pennsylvania, 1947–19556.My Parents, 1937–19617.Leaving Home, 1955–1966 8. Christine, 1946–19689.Carl, 1943–196310. The Movement, 1963–196711.Liberation, 1967–196912.Leaving Carl, 1969 13.Moving On, 1970–197314.Back to the Land, 1969–197715. Rootless in Asia and Europe, 1973–198016. Exile in Iowa, 1980–1984 17.The Passion of the Women in My Family, 1944–198418. Carl’s Death, 1977–1986 19. The Horse Was Already Out of the Barn, 199620.Memento Mori, 1996–199721.Christine’s Death, 199722.Lies, 1998–201523.My Third Regret, 1972–2015

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