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Laughing in the Jungle: The Autobiography of an Immigrant in America Kindle Edition

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Inspired by Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906), Laughing in the Jungle was Louis Adamic at his most playful self—presenting an autobiography of first fifteen years in the United States as an immigrant from Slovenia. From the mailroom of the Narodni Glas Slavic daily in New York, to the silk mills of Pennsylvania, to his stint in the US Army, to four years of work as a port clerk in San Pedro, California, Adamic gives the steady path he took to becoming one of America’s foremost authors, journalists, and social critics. Always with a sense of humor, Adamic recounts his years as an immigrant “bystander and onlooker”—a witness to the jungle that is America.

“[Laughing in the Jungle is] a most welcome addition to our social literature . . . [its] lively, refreshingly frank and accurate description . . . portrays a side of the country which many smug native sons are utterly unaware of.”—Saturday Review of Literature

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Born in Slovenia, Louis Adamic (1898-1951) immigrated to the United States at the age of fifteen, fought in World War I, and later became a writer, translator, and editor. His writing, which included over fifteen books, focused on immigration and race. He was a founding editor of Common Ground, the literary magazine of the Common Council for American Unity, and was known as a social critic who fought for immigrant rights, cultural pluralism, and racial tolerance. His later work focuses on Black, Latinx, and Asian Americans, venturing into questions of interracial marriage and cultural clashes between “old-stock” Americans and the ethnic minorities that he argued made up the New Americans.