Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America by Peter Quinn

Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America

Peter Quinn

288 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective medium-paced
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In Quinn’s hands, the Irish stereotype of “Paddy” gives way to an image of “Jimmy”—an archetypal Irish-American (a composite of Jimmy Cagney and Jimmy Walker) who comes to life as a fast-talking, tough-yet-refined urban American redefining America...

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