Lives & Memoirs
American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant
Marcus Eli Ravage
2026
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He arrived from Romania expecting America and found the Lower East Side. Ravage is unsentimental about both ends of the bargain: the sweatshops and pushcarts of New York, the immigrant colonies that carefully rebuilt the villages they had fled, and a Missouri university where he finally met a country the tenements had never mentioned.
Inside this audiobook
22 chapters
- 1Introduction9m
- 2The Prophet from America25m
- 3The Gospel of New York25m
- 4The Exodus14m
- 5To America on Foot23m
- 6Farewell Forever21m
- 7First Impressions20m
- 8The Immigrant's America18m
- 9"How do you like America?27m
- 10Ventures and Adventures40m
- 11Purifications26m
- 12The Ethics of the Bar23m
- 13Shirts and Philosophy29m
- 14The Soul of the Ghetto18m
- 15The Tragedy of Readjustme25m
- 16The Trials of Scholarship28m
- 17Off to College20m
- 18In the Mold27m
- 19The American as He Is28m
- 20The Fruits of Solitude28m
- 21Harvey30m
- 22The Romance of Readjustme21m
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