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The Mungellos (pronounced mun-JEL-os) were Italian-American children of Vesuvius. Raffaele was a builder, Marianna was a businesswoman, Filippo died in a gang murder in Pittsburgh. They fled the threats of the Black Hand, going to a booming coal-mining town and opening movie theaters. Dominic graduated from college during the Great Depression. The shadow of the gang pursued them, leading to labor disputes and arson which destroyed their new theater. On the East and West coasts, Evelyn and Marianne had simultaneous backstreet affairs with powerful and wealthy men. There was a murder trial for the questionable death of an adopted son from El Salvador. At Berkeley, David had an adulterous same-sex love affair with Carl Wittman, a national leader in SDS and Gay Liberation. Their love affairs projected them up the ladder of American success as they damned one another to their deaths. This is a true story.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1.Uncle Filippo’s Murder, 1919

2.Roots, 1884–1914

3,A Death in the Family, 1915–1944

4.Dreams and Feuds, 1941–1989

5. A Small Town in Pennsylvania, 1947–1955

6.My Parents, 1937–1961

7.Leaving Home, 1955–1966

8. Christine, 1946–1968

9.Carl, 1943–1963

10. The Movement, 1963–1967

11.Liberation, 1967–1969

12.Leaving Carl, 1969

13.Moving On, 1970–1973

14.Back to the Land, 1969–1977

15. Rootless in Asia and Europe, 1973–1980

16. Exile in Iowa, 1980–1984

17.The Passion of the Women in My Family, 1944–1984

18. Carl’s Death, 1977–1986

19. The Horse Was Already Out of the Barn, 1996

20.Memento Mori, 1996–1997

21.Christine’s Death, 1997

22.Lies, 1998–2015

23.My Third Regret, 1972–2015



About the Author :
D. E. Mungello is the grandson of Italian immigrants and a prominent historian. He is the author of nine books and has devoted much of the last fifteen years to researching and writing this memoir of his immigrant family.

Review :
Remember This is a sweeping saga of America in the 20th Century as seen through the lives of an immigrant family of ambition and character who let their dreams and their passions take them to the heights and at times close to the depths. It's also the well told, paradigmatic story of the author who found himself inside several dissident movements of the '60's and 70's and how he survived to make himself a family. David Mungello’s Remember This: A Family in America is an extra-ordinary non-fictional narrative. It is, on the one hand, a fascinating autobiography of an Italian American baby-boomer in the academy. On the other hand, it proves to be much more; namely, it is an in-depth analysis of the social dynamics of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States and their subsequent impact on society. Remember This is a must read for Italian Americans; for those wanting to enter the academy; for those who are looking for a unique perspective on the years of social change in the United States; and, last but not least, for those concerned with identity politics. Buona lettura!


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780761867456
  • Publisher: University Press of America
  • Publisher Imprint: Hamilton Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 266
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 444 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0761867457
  • Publisher Date: 17 May 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Family in America
  • Width: 152 mm


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