The Inheritance (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel G. Freedman
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The 1890’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: England, Italy, Poland, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Mary Elizabeth Sanford, Lizzie Sanford Garrett, Richie Garrett, Edith Garrett Carey, Tim Carey, Martin Burigo, Silvio Burigo, Lorraine Burigo, Frank Trotta, Sr., Frank Trotta, Jr., Aleksander Obrycki, Joseph Obrycki, Vilma Obrycki Maeby, Jack Maeby, Leslie Maeby
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Parents and children, Politics, Immigration or emigration, Conservatism, Liberalism, Democratic Party, Republican Party
- Locales: United States, England, Italy, Poland
In The Inheritance: How Three Families and America Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond, Samuel G. Freedman attempts to understand and explain America’s turn toward the political right in the 1980’s and 1990’s by focusing on the history of three particular families, from their immigrant roots to their struggle to achieve middle-class status. Although each has its own fascinating history, these families have much in common. With Irish, Polish, and Italian roots, all arrived in this country around the turn of the century, are Catholic, working-class individuals, and were...
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