Drawing extensively on the files of La Gazzetta as wellas the personal papers of its legendary editor and publisher, JamesV. Donnaruma, and on his own family"s memories, Puleo has craftedan unsparing, but mostly admiring, account of a colorful andvibrant community as it battled for social acceptance and politicalrecognition.—Michael Kenney, Boston Sunday Globe
"As you flip the pages of The Boston Italians, you canpractically smell the sauce simmering on the stove. It"s not a dullhistory lesson but a narrative underdog tale of what Puleo callsthe "real story" of those early southern Italian immigrants."—DanaBarbuto, Patriot Ledger
"At long last, a historically accurate and well-crafted history ofthe Italian community that flourished in Boston’s North End.Drawing upon original documents, as well as anecdotes from thelives of his own family, Stephen Puleo has produced a work that isa great read for the generalist and a gold mine of information forthe specialist."—Thomas H. O’Connor, university historian at BostonCollege and author of The Boston Irish
"An inspiring contribution not only to the history of the city, butto the story of America. Part elegy, part paean, The BostonItalians is a compelling document that honors the generationsof immigrants who inspired it."—Christopher Castellani, author ofThe Saint of Lost Things
"[Puleo] has written a book that moves along like a fast-pacednovel . . . Truly a magnificent work." —Primo Magazine
In this lively and engaging history, Stephen Puleo tells thestory of the Boston Italians from their earliest years, when alargely illiterate and impoverished people in a strange landrecreated the bonds of village and region in the cramped quartersof the North End. Focusing on this first and crucial Italianenclave in Boston, Puleo describes the experience of Italianimmigrants as they battled poverty, illiteracy, and prejudice;explains their transformation into Italian Americans during theDepression and World War II; and chronicles their rich history inBoston up to the present day.
Stephen Puleo is author of the BostonGlobe best seller The Boston Italians and the criticallyacclaimed Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of1919. A former award-winning newspaper reporter and contributorto American History magazine, he holds a master"s degree inhistory and wrote his thesis on Italian immigration and thesettlement of Boston"s North End. He donates a portion of his bookproceeds to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), theleading charitable funder and advocate of juvenile (Type 1)diabetes research. He and his wife, Kate, live in Weymouth,Massachusetts.
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