The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves: Expanded Edition

Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent, collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people--new immigrants and sharecroppers, cooks and fishermen, women and men working in sweatshops, in the city, and on the land. First published in 1906, and reissued a decade ago, this new edition of Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans is expanded to include lives Holt did not include in his original selection, as well as a new preface by Werner Sollors.

Author: Werner Sollors
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/09/1999
Pages: 310
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.27w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780415925105

About the Author

In addition to a career as a newspaper editor, Hamilton Holt was a supporter of Zora Neale Hurston and President of Rollins College.,
Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature, Professor of Afro-American Studies, and Chair of the History of American Civilization Program at Harvard University. His books include Beyond Ethnicity and The Invention of Ethnicity.