My American Pilgrimage

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, light shelfwear only, one-time owner's address label on front endpaper; the jacket is a bit browned at the edges, moderately soiled on the rear panel, tiny hole in the rear panel, a bit of paper loss at the top of the spine]. "An authentic and very human account of how a Macedonian was transformed into an American. At seventeen [the author] came to this country, knowing practically nothing about it and entirely unable to speak English. During the first five years of his lfie in the United States he was reborn a thorough American, with his roots well in the soil of America. This book tells the story of those years. It is the story of the choice Christowe had to make between remaining a 'Pharisee' like the older immigrants who yearned only for their return to the old country, and becoming a 'Sport,' converted to unfamiliar, sometimes garish, always fascinating American ways." The author, who came to the U.S. in 1912 at the age of thirteen, and worked at various jobs before getting an education and establishing himself as a journalist, in Chicago and later New York. The author of six books about the Balkans, he served as an Intelligence Officer for the U.S. military during World War II, and eventually settled in Vermont, where he became a prominent political figure, serving in that state's House of Representatives from 1951 to 1955, and then in its Senate until his retirement in 1972. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-Fiction." .