ESSAYS FOR MY FATHER
A Legacy of Passion, Politics and Patriotism in Small-Town America
Book presentation by Richard Muti
Author Richard Muti, former mayor of Ramsey, NJ, presents his fourth book, titled Essays for my Father: A legacy of passion, politics, and patriotism in small-town America. Mayor Muti wrote and published this book in order to mark the 100th anniversary of his father's birth. The elder Muti, a lifelong resident of Ramsey as well as a local business and political leader, instilled in his son a love of history, politics, and public policy. Essays for my Father is a collection of essays about politics, unnecessary wars and wrong-headed government, rare displays of political courage, not-so-rare displays of political cowardice, an Italian-American heritage shared by 17 million Americans, public employee unions, and other public policy issues that challenge state and federal government.
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Wednesday, October 23rd
6:30pm
Suggested donation of $10 per person
EXPLORERS EMIGRANTS CITIZENS
A Visual History of the Italian American Experience
From the Collections of the Library of Congress
Book presentation by Linda Barrett Osborne and Paolo Battaglia
Authors Linda Barrett Osborne and Paolo Battaglia selected 500 images related to the rich history of Italian Americans from the Library of Congress' holdings of photographs, maps, posters, letters, films and sound recordings.
The books narration is supported by never-before-seen images and offers a fresh and original perspective on the whole experience of Italians in America, from Columbus until today. It shows the accomplishments of well-remembered individuals such as Fiorello LaGuardia, Vince Lombardi, Martin Scorsese, but goes deeper to rediscover people like Giacomo Beltrami, who reached the sources of the Mississippi in 1823 and Joseph Petrosino, the first Italian American police officer to lose his life fighting organized crime.
Through the photographs of Lewis Hine and others, we see how Italians lived in slums in Eastern cities, in fields and mines in rural America; finally, we see how Italians portrayed America through the works of artists like Carlo Gentile, who photographed southwestern Native Americans in the 1870's, and Athos Casarini futurist painter and illustrator for Harper's Weekly.
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