Looking for Jimmy

Author: Peter Quinn
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: B002KE5W34

Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America

In this stunning work chronicling the author's exploration of his own past--and the lives of many hundreds of thousands of nameless immigrants who struggled alongside his own ancestors--Peter Quinn paints a brilliant new portrait of the Irish-American men and women whose evolving culture and values continue to play such a central role in all of our identities as Americans. Get Looking for Jimmy literature books for free.
In Quinn's hands, the Irish sterotype of "Paddy" gives way to an image of "Jimmy"--an archetypal Irish-American (a composite of Jimmy Cagney and Jimmy Walker) who comes to life as a fast-talking, tough-yet-refined urban American redefining American politics, street culture, religion, and imagination. From their immigration into America to the politics of the modern day, 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.

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