Contents
Introduction. The “Ethnic Fade” That Never Quite Happened
1. Sporting Gentlemen: The Memoirs of John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, and Connie Mack
2. Dancing Like Merry Hell: Barbara Mullen’s Life Is My Adventure
3. Joseph Mitchell’s Irish Imagination
4. The Honeymooners: Jackie Gleason’s Memoir of Brooklyn
5. A Culture of Diffidence: Mid-Century Irish-American Priests’ Autobiographies
6. Flowering Absences: Recent Irish Writers and Genealogical Dead Ends
7. ’Tis, Meaning Maybe: The Uncertain Last Words of Angela’s Ashes
8. “Someone Watching Your Back”: Guardian Angels in Michael Patrick MacDonald’s All Souls
9. Picture Windows: Irish-American Memoirs of the Suburbs
10. Secular Pilgrimages: Recent Irish-American Memoir and Journeys of Healing
Bibliography
Index