Rooting Multiculturalism

Shiffman (English, rhetoric, and writing, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia) examines the life and work of Slovenian-born Louis Adamic (1898-1951), a writer, editor, populist historian, and champion of immigrant contributions to the U.S. Coverage includes a chronological description of Adamic's life, from childhood in Slovenia to his death in 1951; Adamic and the emergence of cultural pluralism between the 1910s to 1940s; his rhetoric of social reform; his writing about second-generation immigrants; and his relevance to contemporary multiculturalism. Distributed by Associated U. Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR