CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION

Cent’ Anni! The Roseto Effect

i nostri paesani: Adriana Trigiani

PART ONE: 1860–1910

CHAPTER ONE: La Famiglia

Our Ancestors: Giuseppe Garibaldi

Documenti: From Carlo Levi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli

CHAPTER TWO: Who Killa da Chief?

CHAPTER THREE: Birds of Passage

Documenti: The Art of B. Amore

CHAPTER FOUR: A Secret History

Our Ancestors: Giuseppe Petrosino

Documenti: Black Hand Extortion

CHAPTER FIVE: Up from the Ashes

PART TWO: 1910–1930

CHAPTER SIX: Becoming American

Our Ancestors: Rudolph Valentino

Documenti: From John Fante’s “The Odyssey of a Wop”

CHAPTER SEVEN: Fruits of Thy Labor

Documenti: Personal Correspondence of Arturo Giovannitti

CHAPTER EIGHT: Taking the Streets

CHAPTER NINE: Guilt by Association

Our Ancestors: Angela Bambace

CHAPTER TEN: A Shortcut

PART THREE: 1930–1945

CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Little Flower

Documenti: Art Renews a People

CHAPTER TWELVE: Faith in the Fatherland

Our Ancestors: Arturo Toscanini

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Why We Fight

Our Ancestors: Hector Boiardi

i nostri paesani: Gay Talese

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Enemy Aliens

Documenti: Enemy Alien Restrictions

PART FOUR: 1945–Present

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: American Dreams

i nostri paesani: Dion DiMucci

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Cultural Outlaws

Documenti: From Diane Di Prima’s Recollections of My Life as a Woman

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Crime and Prejudice

Our Ancestors: Florence Scala

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Mythmakers

i nostri paesani: David Chase

i nostri paesani: John Turturro

CHAPTER NINETEEN: Breaking Through

i nostri paesani: Nancy Pelosi

CHAPTER TWENTY: We’re All Italian!

 

A Note on Sources

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index