Name: The Unknown Swedes: A Book About Swedes and America, Past and Present
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ISBN: 9780809314867

by Moberg, Vilhelm, McKnight, Roger, McKnight, Roger

The Unknown Swedes: A Book About Swedes and America, Past and Present

by Moberg, Vilhelm, McKnight, Roger, McKnight, Roger

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ISBN-13: 9780809314867
ISBN: 080931486X
Edition: 1st Editio
Publication Date: 1988
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press

AUTHOR

Moberg, Vilhelm, McKnight, Roger, McKnight, Roger

SUMMARY

In these nine essays Vilhelm Moberg blends history with poetic license to create an America viewed by a Swedish emigrant in the middle of the 20th century. Roger McKnight's translation ofThe Unknown Swedesis the first English-language book to reveal Moberg's views on emigration, America, and Sweden. In the 1950 edition ofThe Unknown Swedes,Moberg was guardedly optimistic about the United States. In 1968 Moberg, distraught at America's involvement in the Vietnam War, appended the chapter "Twenty Years Later" to the new edition ofThe Unknown Swedes.This essay attacks "vulgar patriotism" in America.Moberg, Vilhelm is the author of 'The Unknown Swedes: A Book About Swedes and America, Past and Present', published 1988 under ISBN 9780809314867 and ISBN 080931486X.

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