Format Paperback Subject Biographies Autobiographies General Publisher University of Illinois Press
#512765 in Books 1992-06-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x 1.20 x 6.00l; 1.70 #File Name: 0252018737400 pages
Review
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful. An important topic; parts are a bit dullBy Marc LichtmanMany thousands of Germans came to the US after the failure of the 1848 revolution; joining others who were already here. They played a big role in the trade union movement; founded Marxism in the US; and were prominent (mostly on the Union side) in the Civil War. The Germans of St. Louis kept that city for the Union. This book starts out rather dull; but it gets better as it goes on. It doesn't reach the heights of his latest book The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South; which is must reading.
