Restless nation
Subtitle: starting over in America
By: James M. Jasper.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Migration, Internal -- United States.; United States -- Emigration and immigration.
Description: In this work, the author discovers that the American character is full of paradoxes. He states that this elusive national character can be found in Americans' faith in moving. He portrays this character through the lives of America's famous and not-so-famous nomads, and facts and statistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-275) and index.