The Soul of an Immigrant: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Soul of an Immigrant, credited to Constantine Panunzio, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Soul of an Immigrant by Constantine Panunzio. Read in English by Sue Anderson Constantine Panunzio (1884-1964) begins his autobiography by describing his childhood in Molfetta, Italy. At age 13, he left home as a sailor, landing in Boston in 1902. His trials finding work, learning English, and securing an education in the U.S. were many, but eventually, he became administrator of a social service agency in Boston. During WWI, he served as head of the YMCA on the Italian front. Concerned throughout his career with the treatment and assimilation of immigrants, Panuncio criticized the post world War I hysteria about alien radicals in his book The Deportation Cases of 1919-1920. - Summary by Sue Anderson

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Soul of an Immigrant
• Author credits: Constantine Panunzio
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 8:47:12

Catalogue topics

• WWI
• war
• family
• education
• ymca
• molfetta
• italian immigration
• kent's hill academy

Track guide

1. 00 - Dedication and Foreword — 11:10
2. 01 - A Native of Ancient Apulia — 50:13
3. 02 - The Call of the Sea — 35:42
4. 03 - America — 24:51
5. 04 - In the American Storm — 59:28
6. 05 - I go to Jail — 29:02
7. 06 - I am Caught Again — 17:56
8. 07 - A Mysterious Event — 6:33
9. 08 - First Glimpses of the Real America — 13:44
10. 09 - You Ought to go to School — 12:01
11. 10 - My American Education and its Meaning — 37:45
12. 11 - I Suffer Serious Losses — 11:34
13. 12 - I Become Naturalized — 14:58
14. 13 - Stumbling Blocks to Assimilation — 20:28
15. 14 - My American Big Brother — 14:40
16. 15 - In An Immigrant Community — 34:50
17. 16 - Still More Obstacles to Assimilation — 17:56
18. 17 - I Go To Jail Once More — 23:13
19. 18 - My American Philosophy of Life — 38:57
20. 19 - Home! — 24:41
21. 20 - My Final Choice — 27:30

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