The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves: Expanded Edition

Hamilton Holt, editor of <em>The Independent</em>, 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 <em>Life Stories of Undistinguished</em> <em>Americans</em> is expanded to include lives Holt did not include in his original selection, as well as a new preface by Werner Sollors.