The Uprooted

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History
THE UPROOTED is a rare combination of powerful feeling and long-time study that gives us the shape and the feel of things rather than just the facts; the hopes and the yearnings of the emigrants that propelled them out of their environment to chance the hazards of the New World; the imprint they made upon the world and how they, in turn, were affected by it and were changed.
This present edition of Oscar Handlin's Pulitzer Prize-winning THE UPROOTED is enlarged by a supplemental chapter and a brilliant bibliographic essay by the author, bringing up to date his thinking and research on the "uprooted" of America, and adding further distinction to a work that is already a classic.
"A high drama in the lives of 35,000,000 men and women, an epic of uprooted souls. Handlin has not omitted the historical background, the forces, movements, and dates, but beyond that he has charged his pages with poetry and feeling. THE UPROOTED is history with a difference —the difference being... Tovább

Fülszöveg

History
THE UPROOTED is a rare combination of powerful feeling and long-time study that gives us the shape and the feel of things rather than just the facts; the hopes and the yearnings of the emigrants that propelled them out of their environment to chance the hazards of the New World; the imprint they made upon the world and how they, in turn, were affected by it and were changed.
This present edition of Oscar Handlin's Pulitzer Prize-winning THE UPROOTED is enlarged by a supplemental chapter and a brilliant bibliographic essay by the author, bringing up to date his thinking and research on the "uprooted" of America, and adding further distinction to a work that is already a classic.
"A high drama in the lives of 35,000,000 men and women, an epic of uprooted souls. Handlin has not omitted the historical background, the forces, movements, and dates, but beyond that he has charged his pages with poetry and feeling. THE UPROOTED is history with a difference —the difference being its concern with men's hearts and souls no less than an event."
-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"In a poetic and sometimes threnodic mood, he has written the often terrible story of the emigrant: his uprooting from a native soil and culture, his painful passage to the New World, and the disillusionment that awaited him there. This is strong stuff, handled in a masterly and quite moving manner."-THE NEW YORKER
"This volume should receive the wide reading it richly deserves. Indeed, there are few Americans who will fail to respond to its theme."-CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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