Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian-Americans

Italian-Americans may be singled out today as on eof the least understood ethnic groups in our country. Indeed, it has been almost impossible to communicate a basic truth about these twenty million US citizens, given the prevailing public ignorance of their ethnic customs and a long media depiction of the Italian as a hard hat, pop singer, mafioso, or just plain buffoon. Here, Richard Gambino sweeps away the distortions to reveal, in this engrossing full-scale study, who they really are, how they got that way, and why they so often fall victim to crude and shallow caricature.