Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States

"A scholarly study of the *real* roots of what Jacobson calls 'America's largely assimilated but ultimately "unmeltable" ethics.' It's a startling point of view for readers who are accustomed to the self-congratulatory myth of America as a beacon of liberty to which the 'huddled masses' of the world look with longing."-Jonathan Kirsch, *Los Angeles Times*