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An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant

Gelesen von Sue Anderson

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“The sweat-shop was for me the cradle of liberty. . . It was my first university.” Attending lectures and the New York theatre at night; by day sewing sleeves into shirts in a ghetto shop, Marcus Eli Ravage (1884-1965) began his transformation from “alien” to American. His 1917 autobiography is a paean to the transformative power of education. Ravage emigrated from Rumania in 1900, at the age of 16. After working for several years as a “sleever” to save money, he enrolls in the University of Missouri (the least expensive school he can find), where culture shock overwhelms him at first. “I was not sure whether it was a pig or a sheep that bleated, whether clover was a plant and plover a bird, or the other way around.” But he adapts, and eventually embraces “the bigger and freer world” outside the immigrant ghetto. He writes that, because of his university experience, he was no longer “a man without a country.” He had become an American. - Summary by Sue Anderson (8 hr 41 min)

Chapters

Introduction

8:41

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The Prophet from America

24:49

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The Gospel of New York

24:33

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The Exodus

13:43

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To America on Foot

22:49

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Farewell Forever

20:32

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First Impressions

20:12

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The Immigrant's America

17:30

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"How do you like America?"

26:59

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Ventures and Adventures

39:45

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Purifications

26:03

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The Ethics of the Bar

22:33

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Shirts and Philosophy

28:32

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The Soul of the Ghetto

18:06

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The Tragedy of Readjustment

25:13

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The Trials of Scholarship

27:36

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Off to College

19:33

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In the Mold

27:16

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The American as He Is

28:02

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The Fruits of Solitude

27:48

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Harvey

29:40

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The Romance of Readjustment

21:18

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Bewertungen

(5 Sterne)

It is very well written and an eye opener to how emigrants felt back then and also today. Well worth the read.

(5 Sterne)

It ended rather abruptly but I enjoyed it very much.