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Author: Peter Quinn
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B004L2K4QI

Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America

Paddy--the caricature of the heavy-drinking, hardbrawling Irishman born in Vaudeville acts and nativist cartoons-- remains, unfortunately, a vivid feature of the American national imagination. Get Looking for Jimmy literature books for free.
But as this stereotype fades into the past, what image does America have of the millions of Irish-Catholic immigrants who have played such a central role in our history? In this remarkable collection of writings chronicling the author's exploration of his own past--and the lives of the hundreds of thousands of nameless immigrants that struggled alongside his own ancestors--Peter Quinn paints a brilliant new portrait of the Irish-American men and women whose culture and values now play such a central role in all of our identities as Americans. In Quinn's Check Looking for Jimmy our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.