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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lindberg, Richard C.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.