From Alien To Citizen: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
From Alien To Citizen by Edward A. Steiner: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 31 original MP3 tracks, 6:42:45 running time and a link to listen.
From Alien To Citizen, credited to Edward A. Steiner, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of From Alien To Citizen by Edward A. Steiner. Read in English by Michele Fry. Edward Steiner spent his life figuring out how America manages to take in aliens from all over the world, who bring with them a huge diversity of beliefs, habits, ethics, prejudices, expectations, etc., throws them into the "melting pot", and within a few generations most are shaped into full blooded Americans. This rarely happens in Europe, where people move from country to country but rarely become countrymen. Steiner, a wonderful writer, relates his own experience as a young penniless immigrant who, after becoming successful, devoted his life to helping newcomers adjust, lecturing around the world and writing numerous books on immigration. This one is his personal story: his arduous trek from home country to the American "sweat shop, the mills and mines with their grinding labor, the open courts, the jail, the open road with its dangers", experiences in American homes and schools and the Christian Church, his evolution from Jew to Christian minister, University Professor, and immigration scholar. ~ Summary by Michele Fry
Recording facts
- Recording title: From Alien To Citizen
- Author credits: Edward A. Steiner
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 31
- Listed recording duration: 6:42:45
Catalogue topics
- immigration
- american citizenship
Opening tracks: first 24 of 31
- 00 - Preface — 8:58
- 01 - Prophecy and Fulfilment — 10:29
- 02 - The Comparative Steerage — 12:52
- 03 - The Voyage in a — 10:54
- 04 - The Last Landing and the First — 10:38
- 05 - Looking for Work and the First Sunday — 12:49
- 06 - In the Sweat Shop — 11:36
- 07 - Learning English and Going to Princeton — 11:11
- 08 - An Involuntary Tolstoyan — 13:10
- 09 - Westward Ho! — 10:51
- 10 - Pittsburgh Then and Now — 13:32
- 11 - Justified Faith — 12:44
- 12 - In Darkest Pittsburgh — 8:17
- 13 - From Steel to Coal — 10:36
- 14 - Criminal Immigrant — 14:47
- 15 - How Tramps Are Made — 11:40
- 16 - The Gate into Chicago — 10:36
- 17 - Among the Bohemians — 9:47
- 18 - The Great Harvest Fields — 13:53
- 19 - Mine No. 3 — 13:43
- 20 - An Irish Providence — 11:57
- 21 - A Turning Point — 13:00
- 22 - The School of the Rabbis — 13:22
- 23 - The School of the Prophets — 15:14
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