biography
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| lived:
| (1915– )
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| biography:
| Historian, born in New York City, New York, USA. He taught at Harvard University (1938), and his doctoral thesis, Boston's Immigrants 1790–1865 (1941), updated as The Uprooted (1951), won a Pulitzer Prize and established him as an authority on immigration. With his wife, sociologist Mary Flug Handlin, he wrote Commonwealth (1947). Other works include Race and Nationality in American Life (1957) and The Distortion of America (1981). |
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