The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress
- ISBN-10
- 1564780880
- ISBN-13
- 9781564780881
- Series
- The Making of Americans
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 974
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Author
- Gertrude Stein
Description
"Essential for all literature collections . . . Several of Stein's titles returned to print in 1995, but none more important than The Making of Americans." Library Journal
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- 1966
- 925 pages
- Paperback
- Something Else Press
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