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Book Number: 404007

The Book: News From the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants Write Home, edited by Walter D. Kamphoefner, Wolfgang Helbich, and Ulrike Sommer. Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1991. Indexes, sources, illus., photos., maps, 8vo., cloth, dj., 645 pp. VG condition.

A broad cross section of more than 350 German immigrant letters that were sent back to family and friends in Germany during the 19th and early 20th centuries. These letters provide a first-hand look into immigrant life. There is also extensive background information on the writers and their families.

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