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

The Unknown Swedes: A Book about Swedes and America, Past and Present
ISBN-10
080931486X
ISBN-13
9780809314867
Category
History (General)
Pages
182
Language
English
Published
1988
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Author
Vilhelm Moberg

Description

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 of The Unknown Swedes is the first English-language book to reveal Moberg's views on emigration, America, and Sweden. In the 1950 edition of The 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 of The Unknown Swedes. This essay attacks "vulgar patriotism" in America.

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