WPA and union card: Alane Salierno Mason personal collection
Daniel Celentano painting: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC/Art Resource, NY
La Guardia smashing slot machines: Hulton Archive/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Union art: Alane Salierno Mason personal collection
Fascist gathering in New Jersey: Center for Migration Studies
Giovannitti poem: David Giovannitti personal collection
Mussolini: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [LC-USW 33-000890-ZC]
President Franklin Roosevelt and Generoso Pope: Paul D. Pope and the Pope Media Center LLC collection
Arturo Toscanini poster: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [LC-DIG-ggbain-32153]
Albert Onesti with soldiers: Ron Onesti personal collection
“Keep ’em Flying” poster: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI collection [LC-USW3-015095-D]
“Stamp ’Em Out!” poster: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [LC-USZC2-1142]
Rosina Bonavita and fellow worker: Joseph T. Hickey personal collection
World War II flag raising ceremony: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI collection [LC-USW 3-006904-E]
Tony Bennett and mother: Tony Bennett family personal collection
Women celebrating child’s birthday: Alan Christian personal collection
Locals celebrating Italy’s surrender: Daily Worker/Daily World Photographs Collection, Tamiment Library, New York University
Chef Boy-Ar-Dee ad: Apic/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Gay Talese: Courtesy The Italian Americans documentary
Missoula, Montana internment camp: Courtesy of the National Japanese American Historical Society. Donated by Goro and Nobi Asaki
Celestina Stagnaro Loero: Geoffrey Dunn personal collection
Men in internment camp: Courtesy of the National Japanese American Historical Society. Donated by Goro and Nobi Asaki
Men on wharf: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [LC-USF34-081790-E]
Joe DiMaggio with parents: Underwood Archives/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Angelo J. Rossi with siblings: Rose Marie Cleese personal collection
Knock ’Em on Their Axis: National Archives photo no. 179-WP-772
ID cards (beginning upper left): Geoffrey Dunn personal collection, Anthony Tamburri personal collection, Geoffrey Dunn personal collection, Stephanie Romeo personal collection
Notice to Enemy Aliens poster: Courtesy of the Japanese American National Library
Alessi espresso pot: “La cupola, Espresso coffee maker,” designed in 1988 by Aldo Rossi. Courtesy of Alessi
Theater marquee: Photofest Digital
Dean Martin: Photofest Digital
Tony Bennett: Photofest Digital
Frank Sinatra: Photofest Digital
Davis, Martin, and Sinatra: Photofest Digital
Madonna on cross: Dave Hogan/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images
Lady Gaga: Photofest Digital
Dion DiMucci: Courtesy of The Italian Americans documentary
Gasoline book cover: Copyright © 1958 by City Lights Books. Reprinted by permission of City Lights Books. Photograph by Michael Shorris
Gregory Corso: Loomis Dean/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Mario Savio: Steven Marcus Photograph, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Diana Di Prima: Photograph by William F. Wilson
Frank Costello: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division [LC-USZ62-120716]
Family on patio: Alane Salierno Mason personal collection
Estes Kefauver: © Bettmann/Corbis
Kefauver billboard: Michael Rougier/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Frank Costello’s hands: Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Carlo Gambino “family” chart: © Bettmann/Corbis
Florence Scala: Casa Italia, Chicago
Marlon Brando: Photofest Digital
Mario Puzo: Bernard Gotfryd/Premium Archives/Getty Images
Francis Ford Coppola directing The Godfather: Photograph by Steve Schapiro
John Gotti: Photofest Digital
The Sopranos: Photofest Digital
John Travolta: Photofest Digital
Jersey Shore’s Pauly D.: Photofest Digital
Mob Wives: Newscom
David Chase: Courtesy of The Italian Americans documentary
John Turturro: Courtesy of The Italian Americans documentary
Mario Cuomo: Photograph by Janie Eisenberg
Geraldine Ferraro and Walter Mondale: © Bettmann/Corbis
Italian grandmothers: Stephanie Romeo personal collection
Justice Antonin Scalia: The Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States
Political buttons: Photograph by Chris Leary
Nancy Pelosi swearing-in: Pelosi family personal collection
Andrew Cuomo and daughters: Courtesy of the Governor’s Office
De Blasio “One of Us” poster: Photograph by Luigi Maria Mongillo
Nancy Pelosi: Courtesy of The Italian Americans documentary
Eataly counter: Photograph by Virginia Rollison
Sant Ambroeus espresso bar: Photograph by Michael Shorris
1940s espresso machine: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI collection [LC-USW 3-006923-E]
Mario Batali: Photograph by Melanie Dunea
Tuscan countryside: Photograph by Michael Shorris
Painting: Iceman Crucified #3, Ralph Fasanella (1914–1997). New York, 1956. Oil on canvas. 48¾ x 37¾ in. Collection American Folk Art Museum, New York. Gift of Patricia L. and Maurice C. Thompson Jr., 1991.11.1. Photograph by Gavin Ashworth, New York
Encyclopedic Palace: Photograph by Michael Shorris
Encyclopedic Palace detail: Photograph by Michael Shorris
Fig tree: Shutterstock stock photograph
INDEX
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abolition, 29
Abruzzi, 90
Addams, Jane, 230
Adonis, Joe, 226
African Americans:
civil rights and, 133, 156, 217
Italian American murders of, 254
Italian conquest of Ethiopia and, 167
prejudice against, 44
slavery and, 29, 30
suffrage of, 36
as tenant farmers, 30, 31
agricultural industry, 61, 63, 65–66, 67–68
in Italy, 17, 18, 30, 33, 63, 83
alcohol, 137–38, 142, 151
menace of, 135, 135
smuggling of, 138
see also bootlegging; Prohibition
“Alejandro,” 206
Aliano, 26
Alien Registration Division, 185
Allies, 176, 177, 178, 179
Almerigotti, Thea, 148, 148
Ambrogio, Saint, 260
American Federation of Labor, 95
American Folk Art Museum, 266–67
American Home Foods Company, 181
American Madness, 73
American Mafia, 141
American Mercury, 90, 164
American Woolen Company, 93, 94
Amore, B., 46–47
Analyze That, 236
Analyze This, 236
anarchism, 117–30, 123, 125
community circles and, 118, 125, 131
corrupt American system and, 117, 121, 145
in Europe, 117
ideals of, 117–18, 121, 211
publications of, 118
working conditions and, 118, 118, 121, 131
see also Galleanisti; Gruppo Autonomo
anarchist bombings, 117, 121–23, 123, 124
Anastasio, Anthony “Tough Tony,” 226
anti-Fascist Mazzini Society, 168
Antonini, Luigi, 160
Apennines, 5, 25
Apulia, 5, 88
Argentina, 19, 24
Arizona, 146
Armani, Giorgio, 265
Arnold, Dorothy, 190
atheism, 119
Atlantic Monthly, 128
Auriti, Marino, 265–66, 267–69, 267, 268
Austria, 19, 24, 146
Avigliano, 77
Avrich, Paul, 121
Bailey, George (char.), 72–73
Balbo, Italo, 165–66
Baltimore, Md., 5, 51, 255, 256
Balzac, Honoré de, 1
Bambace, Angela, 131–33, 131, 132
Bambace, Giuseppina, 131, 131
Bambace, Maria, 131
banking, 61, 67–70, 68, 73–74
Bank of America, 72, 73–74, 164
Bank of Italy (Banco d’Italia), 69–72, 72, 74
banned books, 219, 220–21
Baraka, Amiri, 219
Barbetta, 180
Barton Fink, 243
Basie, Count, 198
Basilicata, 18, 26, 77, 86
Basilone, John, 178
Bastianich, Lidia, 261
Batali, Mario, 261, 261
Bay City, Mich., 205
Beatles, 197
Beat movement, 214, 219
Beats, 211–12, 211, 213–14
“Because of You,” 198
“Begin the Beguine,” 200
Bellanca, Giuseppe, 147
Bennett, Tony, 178, 198–99, 199, 223
Bernaldo, 26
Bianchi, Willibald C., 178
Bianco, Carla, 8
Biddle, Francis, 173, 192
Biennale, 265, 267
Big Night, 245
Big Stone Gap, Va., 11, 14
“Big Time,” 9, 11, 110
Bill of Rights, U.S., 187, 188
Bishop, Joey, 205
Black Hand, 80, 136, 141
bombings by, 51–52, 52, 54, 62
bootlegging and, 138, 139
extortion by, 50–51, 52, 52, 56, 59
intelligence gathering on, 53, 53, 57–58
kidnapping by, 54–55, 54
Black Shirts, 161, 162, 182
Boiardi, Anna, 181
Boiardi, Hector (Ettore), 176, 180–81
Boiardi, Mario, 180
Boiardi, Paul, 180
Bologna, 170
Bolsheviks, 124, 161
bombings, 51–52, 54, 62, 117, 121–23, 123, 124
Bonanno, Joseph, 141, 229
Bonavita, Rosina “Rosie,” 176–77, 177
Boorman, John, 242
bootlegging, 136–37, 138, 139, 141, 223
Borgnine, Ernest, 58
Born This Way, 206
Boston, Mass., 44, 120, 123, 128
Bourbons, 20
Braintree robbery, 124, 125–26, 128–29
branch banking, 71
Brando, Marlon, 1, 233
Brazil, 269
“Bread and Roses” (Oppenheim), 104
breweries, 137
Bridgewater, Mass., 125
British Isles, 5
Bronx, N.Y., 171, 207–8, 217
Brooklyn, N.Y., 54, 138, 139, 219
Bruhn, John, 7, 8
Buckley, Chris, 68
Buda, Mario, 124
Bulge, Battle of the, 179
Bullets over Broadway, 236
Bureau of Immigration (Louisiana), 30
Burroughs, William S., 211
Bush, George H. W., 249
Caffe Reggio, 260
Calabria, 52
Calatafimi, 20
California, 73
agricultural industry in, 61, 63, 65–66, 67–68
banking in, 61, 67–70, 68
fishing industry in, 61, 63–64, 64, 189
Italian immigrants in, 61–66, 187–88, 190
World War II relocation in, 187–88
California, University of, 219
at Berkeley, 215–17, 218
California Fruit Canners Association, 65
Cambridge, Mass., 213
Campania, 18
campanilismo, 43
Campbell, Joseph, 2
Camponeschi, Oscar, 132–33, 132
Camponeschi, Philip, 132–33, 132
Camponeschi, Romolo, 132–33
Canada, 96, 138
canneries, 63, 65–66
Canonsburg, Pa., 198
capitalism, 118, 121, 123, 141, 162, 211
Capitol Records, 204
Capone, Al, 139–40, 139, 223
Capra, Frank, 72–73, 74, 178
Capra, Frank, Jr., 73
Caprera, 29
Carbone, Mario, 261
Caruso, Enrico, 51, 69, 198, 211
Caruso, Joseph, 97, 103
Catania, 33
Catholic Charities, 212
Catholic Church, American, 107, 109, 114
Catholic Church, Irish, 107, 108–9
Catholicism, 107–14, 120, 122, 123, 146, 205–6
Cavour, Camillo di, 19
Chase, David, 237, 239–42
Chavari, 66
Chef Boiardi Food Company, 181
Chef Boy-Ar-Dee, 176, 180–81
Chicago, Ill., 35, 122, 259
Black Hand in, 51
bootlegging in, 138
Haymarket Square trial in, 102
housing in, 44
Italian community conditions in, 44
Little Italy in, 230–31
organized crime in, 138, 139, 223
Chicago, University of, 230
Chicago Tribune, 89, 161, 227
Chicago World’s Fair, 165
Chinese immigrants, 30, 44
Christianity, 18, 206
Christ in Concrete (Di Donato), 45
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Levi), 17–18, 26–27
citizenship, 185–86, 189
citizenship test, 186, 190
City Lights Books, 211, 212
City Lights Bookstore, 211–12
civil disobedience, 215–16, 218
civil rights, 225
Italy’s stripping of, 167, 167
World War I restrictions on, 121
World War II restrictions on, 185, 186–87, 188–89, 190, 192–93, 194
Civil War, U.S., 29
Clinton, Bill, 251
Clinton State Prison, 212–13
Clooney, George, 205
Cohen, Robert, 218
Cohn, Harry, 202–3
Colicchio, Tom, 261
Colombo, Joseph, 229
Colonial Sand & Stone Company, 165
Colorado, 136–37
Columbia Pictures, 202
Columbus, Christopher, 160
Columbus Citizens Committee, 160
Columbus Day, 159, 160, 192
“Columbus Day Riot,” 201
Columbus Savings and Loan Association Society, 68
Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, 130
Communism, 160
Como, Perry, 198, 223
compulsory education laws, 84–86
Congress, U.S.:
Hennessy case and, 37
immigration and, 130, 149
Italian Americans in, 145, 147–51, 256, 257
Kefauver Committee hearings and, 227, 228
Lawrence millworkers’ strike and, 100–101
money allocated by, 154
and World War II treatment of Italian Americans, 186
Convent of the Sacred Heart, 206
Coolidge, Calvin, 130, 164
Copacabana, 198
Coppola, Francis Ford, 26, 73, 234, 235, 236, 245
Corleone, Vito (char.), 1, 73, 203, 234, 236
corruption, 227
in Europe, 121
in New Orleans, 34, 35
in New York City, 145, 147, 147, 152, 153
in San Francisco, 68
; Corsi, Edward, 153
Corso, Fortunato Samuel, 212, 214
Corso, Gregory, 211–15, 214, 223
Corso, Michelina Colonna, 212, 214
Costello, Frank, 140–41, 142, 165, 223–24, 223
in Kefauver Committee hearings, 226–28, 227, 229
counterculture, 211–21, 223
Covello, Leonard (Leonardo Coviello), 77–80, 82, 82, 84, 86, 142, 153
Coviello family, 78–80
crab, 64
Cronaca Sovversiva, La (“Subversive Chronicle”), 118
Cuomo, Andrea, 248
Cuomo, Andrew, 252, 253
Cuomo, Cara, 253
Cuomo, Mariah, 253
Cuomo, Mario, 3, 247, 247, 248, 249, 250–51, 252, 256–57
Cuomo, Matilda, 250
Cuomo, Michaela, 253
“Custodial Detention List,” 187
Daily News, 237
Daily Picayune, 35
Daily Tribune, 51
D’Alesandro, Thomas, III, 255, 256
D’Alesandro, Thomas J., 247, 252, 255
Daley, Richard J., 230–31, 231
D’Amato, Alfonse, 247
Damone, Vic, 198
Daniello, Teresa, 176
Dannemora, N.Y., 212
Dark Arena, The (Puzo), 233
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 203, 205
“Day of Faith,” 166
de Blasio, Bill, 252–54, 254
de Blasio, Chiara, 253
de Blasio, Dante, 253
de Blasio, Maria, 252–53
Del Monte, 66
Democratic National Convention (1984), 247, 256–57
Democratic Party, 147, 152, 192, 252
De Niro, Robert, 236
Denver, Colo., 90, 136–37
deportations, 41, 122, 124, 149
desegregation, 225
DeWitt, John, 187, 192
Diana, Princess of Wales, 265
Di Donato, Pietro, 45
Di Giorgio Fruit Corporation, 164
DiMaggio, Giuseppe, 190, 190
DiMaggio, Joe, 3, 4, 190, 190, 193
DiMaggio, Rosalie, 190, 190
DiMucci, Dion, 207–9
Dinkins, David, 254
Dion and the Belmonts, 207
Di Palo, Savino, 50
Di Prima, Diane, 219–21, 223
dissent movements, 211, 215–17, 218
Domenici, Pete V., 247
Don Larkin show, 208–9
Dorsey, Tommy, 200
Dos Passos, John, 129
Do the Right Thing, 243
draft-dodgers, 201–2
East Harlem, N.Y., 43, 131, 140, 223, 251
festa in, 110
congressional district of, 152
Italian community in, 77, 77, 78, 110–11, 114, 142, 152–53
racial tension in, 167
Eat, Pray, Love (Gilbert), 262
Eataly, 259, 259
Eboli, 18
economic equality, 93, 149, 150
education, 71–72, 78, 84–86, 85, 139, 148
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