Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction to the American Edition xv
6. Part I. Chronicle of the Great Exodus
7. Introduction 3
8. To the Readers 17
9. Shine? . . . Shine? 20
10. For Humanity 26
11. The Biography of a Bootblack 31
12. Little Italy 40
13. How It Feels to Represent a Problem 51
14. The Children of Emigrants 59
15. Neither Foreigners nor Americans 69
16. Public Service Is My Motto 74
17. Part II. Colonial Chronicles
18. Introduction 81
19. Peppino 111
20. The Destruction of San Francisco, April 18, 1906 131
21. The Five Points 138
22. To Giuseppe Giacosa 146
23. Two Stories 154
24. A Story, Sketches, and a Play 167
25. An Emigrant’s Diary 210
26. Two Poems 231
27. Two Poems 236
28. Three Poems 251
29. The Poor Woman 257
30. The Little Madonna of the Italians 266
31. Bohemian and Detective 284
32. Brunori’s Fortune 294
33. Hold Up! 303
34. The Two Girlfriends 315
35. The Flapper 328
36. Seven Poems 341
37. The Hula Hula Flag 346
38. The Verdict 353
39. Part III. On Stage (and Off )
40. Introduction 369
41. The Interrogation of Pulcinella 395
42. Four Poems and a Dramatic Play 405
43. Five Poems 445
44. Three Poems 467
45. Nofrio on the Telephone 475
46. Child Abductors, or, The Black Hand 488
47. Two Poems 499
48. The Americanized Calabrian 502
49. Dante’s Colony 512
50. The Pichinicco 516
51. Spaghetti House 522
52. Two Poems 524
53. Six Poems 527
54. Domestic Court 531
55. Leaves in the Whirlwind 536
56. Part IV. Anarchists, Socialists, Fascists, and Antifascists
57. Introduction 551
58. The First of May 605
59. Two Poems 610
60. Methods of the Socialist Struggle 613
61. An Editorial and a Dramatic Play 626
62. A Letter and a Story 643
63. Six Poems 658
64. Brief Discourses 665
65. Four Poems 675
66. Four Poems 689
67. The Fire 697
68. In Union Square Park 708
69. Fascism in America 715
70. The Lighthouse 723
71. To Mussolini, the Immortal 726
72. Two Poems 728
73. Two Poems 731
74. The Failed Ambush 736
75. Remembering Michele Schirru 748
76. What to Do? 758
77. Two Articles 764
78. Once Again Tresca 779
79. Part V. Integrated Apocalyptics
80. Introduction 791
81. A Story and a Poem 801
82. A Schoolmaster of the Great City 811
83. Viola 820
84. In an Immigrant Community 853
85. The Day of Summer 867
86. Son of Italy 877
87. Incipit Vita Nova 896
88. The Torture of the Soul 909
89. Miracle 914
90. A Picture of 1907 927
91. Bibliography 939
92. Index 987