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Irish America Coming into Clover

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ISBN-10: 038549596X

ISBN-13: 9780385495967

Edition: N/A

Authors: Maureen Dezell

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Old-time politics, piety, and St. Patrick’s Day parades loom large when the Irish come to the American mind. None truly represents the complex legacy or contributions of the nation’s oldest ethnic group, who rank among the most highly educated and affluent Americans today. In Irish America, Maureen Dezell takes a new and invigorated look at Americans of Irish Catholic ancestry — who they are, and how they got that way. A welcome antidote to so many standard-issue, sentimental representations of the Irish in the United States, Irish America focuses on popular culture as well as politics; the Irish in the Midwest and West as well as the East; the “new Irish” immigrants; the complicated role…    
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Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.93" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Maureen Dezell (Brookline, MA) is a veteran journalist and author. A former "Boston Globe" living/arts reporter, she covered health care issues and ethics for the "Boston Phoenix" and reported on the business and politics of health care for "Boston Business Journal". Author of the critically acclaimed "Irish America: Coming into Clover, " Dezell is now a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in "The New Republic, American Health, Child, ARTNews, " and "The New York Times." She teaches journalism at Emerson College in Boston.Carrie Hill (Paragonah, UT) has a PhD in counseling psychology with a minor in gerontology from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her professional experiences…