Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes Puerto Ricans Jews Italians and Irish of New York City (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes Puerto Ricans Jews Italians and Irish of New York City<br><br>History or perhaps historians keep passing New York by. During the Civil War New York [state] pro vided the greatest number of soldiers the greatest quantity of supplies and the largest amount of money. In addition New York''s citizens paid the most taxes bought the greatest number of war - bonds and gave the most to relief organiza tions. 1 Yet it is recalled as a war between Yankees and Southerners. The Union preserved the American mind roams westward with the cowboys returning if at all to the Main Streets of the Midwest. The only New York image that has permanently impressed itself on the national mind is that of Wall Street - a street on which mobod lives. Paris may be France London may be England but New York we continue to reassure ourselves is not America.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.