Whiskey Breakfast : My Swedish Family, My American Life

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lindberg, Richard C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lindbergh family.
Lindberg, Richard C., > 1953-
Lindberg, Richard C., > 1953- > Childhood and youth.
Lindberg, Richard C., > 1953- > Family.
Swedish Americans.
Families.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Americains d'origine suedoise > Illinois > Chicago > Biographies.
Swedish Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > Biography.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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