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Mount Allegro(1st Edition)
A Memoir of Italian American Life (New York Classics)
by Jerre Gerlando Mangione, Patricia Mangione, Professor Eugene Paul Nassar, Dorothy Canfield
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1998 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0429-7, ISBN: 0-8156-0429-7

"Mount Allegro is an extraordinary memoir, a celebration of Sicilian life, an engaging sociological portrait, a moving reminiscence of a fledgling writer’s escape from the restrictive culture in which he grew up. Jerre Mangione’s autobiographical chronicle of his youth in a Sicilian community in Rochester is one of the truly enduring books about the immigrant experience in this country. Family squabbles, soul-nourishing food, and the cas ..."

The Dream and the Deal(Updated)
The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943
by Jerre Mangione, Patricia Mangione
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 1996 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0415-0, ISBN: 0-8156-0415-7

"Operating in every state in the union for eight turbulent years, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project provided needed jobs for more than 10,000 writers and would-be writers (among them Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright) and produced some 1,200 published books and pamphlets, including the magnificent American Guide Series, which gave the nation its first self-portrait. Nominated for the National Book Award in history, The ..."

An Ethnic At Large(1st Edition)
A Memoir of America in the Thirties and Forties
by Jerre Gerlando Mangione, Patricia Mangione, Bernard A. Weisberger
Paperback, 378 Pages, Published 2001 by Syracuse University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0716-8, ISBN: 0-8156-0716-4

"Now and then a distinguished book landed on the McBride list, but it was usually in spite of its president's literary obtuseness. I recall the author with stricken eyes who had just emerged from an editorial conference with McBride. He was holding both sides of his head, as though trying to contain his sanity, and groaning, " Jesus, God, was he really talking about my book?" McBride's lack of literary perception was matched by his i ..."

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