The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves

About this book

Hamilton Holt editor of The Independent collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people--new immigrants and sharecroppers cooks and fishermen women and men working in sweatshops in the city and on the land. First published in 1906 and reissued a decade ago this new edition of Life Stories of UndistinguishedAmericans is expanded to include lives Holt did not include in his original selection as well as a new preface by Werner Sollors.