Every Wrong Direction: An Emigré's Memoir
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Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American ?migr? who never found a home in America. It begins in the row homes of Jewish immigrants and working-class Italians on the mean streets of 1950s South Philadelphia. Every Wrong Direction follows the author from the rough, working-class childhood that groomed him to be a butcher or charter boat captain, through America, Britain and Saudi Arabia as student, lawyer, spy, culture warrior, and expatriate, ending with a photo of his college rooms at St John's College, Cambridge. Between this beginning and end, through a Philadelphia commuter college, to Cambridge, then Yale Law School, across the working to upper classes, three countries, and seven cities over 43 years, it maps his pursuit of, realization, disillusionment with and abandonment of America and the American Dream.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1978830149
ISBN13:9781978830141
Release Date:October 2022
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:358 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
Age Range:16 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 11 and higher
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