| Description |
1 online resource (337 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Sweden and the Sorrows; 2. Two Men from Swedetown; 3. The Opposite Sides of the Tracks; 4. The Shadows of Despair; 5. Feeding the Sparrows; 6. Oscar and Evelyn and Charley; 7. A Picnic, a Proposal, a Passage; 8. Charity Begins at Home; 9. The Crying Game; 10. The House That Was Not a Home; 11. The Shook-up Generation; 12. Custody Visits; 13. Slam Books and Second Chances; 14. A Child of Clubland; 15. The Taming of the Swede; 16. Love Is for Barflies; 17. A Worker of the World; 18. Ashes to Ashes--and Back to Ronneby; 19. A Wayne King Lullaby |
| Summary |
Chicago in the 1920s: Clark Street was the city's last Swedetown, a narrow corridor of weather-beaten storefronts, coal yards, and taverns running along the north side of the city and the locus of Swedish community life in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. It represented a way station for a generation of working-class immigrants escaping the hardships of the old country for the promise of a brighter new day in a halfway house of sorts, perched between the old and new lands. For Richard C. Lindberg, whose Swedish immigrant parents and grandparents settled there, it was als |
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EpiloguePostscript |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Lindbergh family.
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Lindberg, Richard C., 1953- -- Family
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Lindberg, Richard C., 1953- -- Childhood and youth
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Lindberg, Richard C., 1953- fast |
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Lindbergh family fast |
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Swedish Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Families
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Swedish Americans
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography
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Illinois -- Chicago
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011023621 |
| ISBN |
9780816678297 |
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0816678294 |
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9781452945910 |
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1452945918 |
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