Whiskey Breakfast : My Swedish Family, My American Life.
Chicago in the 1920s: Clark Street was the city's last Swedetown, a narrow corridor of weather-beaten storefronts, coal yards, and taverns running along the north side of the city and the locus of Swedish community life in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. It represented a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Sweden and the Sorrows; 2. Two Men from Swedetown; 3. The Opposite Sides of the Tracks; 4. The Shadows of Despair; 5. Feeding the Sparrows; 6. Oscar and Evelyn and Charley; 7. A Picnic, a Proposal, a Passage; 8. Charity Begins at Home; 9. The Crying Game; 10. The House That Was Not a Home; 11. The Shook-up Generation; 12. Custody Visits; 13. Slam Books and Second Chances; 14. A Child of Clubland; 15. The Taming of the Swede; 16. Love Is for Barflies; 17. A Worker of the World; 18. Ashes to Ashes--and Back to Ronneby; 19. A Wayne King Lullaby.