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Even though he is determined to kill former capo Nick Geraci and questions begin to surface regarding the mob's involvement in the assassination of President Jimmy Shea, Michael Corleone tries to legitimize his family name.

On August 15, 1953, the day of the Feast of Assumption--held in Elephant Park, Ohio--Rocco LaGrassa learns of his son's death while being held in a POW camp in Korea, and after catastrophic events at the festival decides to leave Elephant Park to seek out the family that abandoned him long ago.

Contains twenty-three essays by Italian-American writers, including personal memoirs, analyses of Italian-American literature, and discussions by Italian-American intellectuals on aspects of their heritage.

The author describes his life as a member of an Italian-American family and the lives of other members of three generations of his immigrant family in Italy and in the United States.

Mafia leader Vito Corleone uses his power to influence all aspects of his Long Island society and will stop at nothing to see that his twisted vision of justice is carried out.

A wise old Italian grandmother tells her stubborn twelve-year-old granddaughter, Rosie, stories from her childhood while the two make soup in order to help the child mend her differences with her best friend, Bailey.

A look at Italian American traditions, culture, and history.

In 1889 New York, fourteen-year-old Italian immigrant Tony Petrosino, struggling with street gangs and torn between his family's Old World ways and his desire to further his education, gets help from a new friend, photographer and social reformer Jacob Riis.