D. E. Mungello

Remember This (eBook, ePUB)

A Family in America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761867463
• Artikelnr.: 45090918

Autorenporträt

D. E. Mungello has been a leading scholar in Sino-Western history. From 1979 to 2016 he founded and edited a journal dedicated to the post-Mao Zedong era revival of contacts between Chinese and foreign historians. His books include Leibniz and Confucianism, Curious Land , The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800, The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785, Drowning Girls in China: Female Infanticide since 1650, Western Queers in China: Flight to the Land of Oz, The Catholic Invasion of China, This Suffering is my Joy: The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China and Interracial Lovers in Revolutionary China. He is the Professor of History Emeritus at Baylor University.

Inhaltsangabe

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