This process begins on page 36 of the work, where several lengthy sentences are repeated from page 3 of Huebener's book. Thus it is a quite distasteful task to report that the book reviewed here is in no way up to the standards its author has set in his work, as the long-time president of a scholarly organization, and as a librarian.Ībout half of both the substance and the wording of the first 180 pages of this book duplicate Theodore Huebener's, The Germans in America (1962). As a librarian, he has done much to gather, improve access to, and promote the use of German-American written materials. He is a tireless promoter of German-American studies-a field stigmatized for much of the twentieth century and, even after the ethnic revival which began in the 1970s, much under-studied by American historians. I have always found him to be friendly, modest, unassuming, and entirely likable in person. To begin with a personal note, I first met the author in 1980 and have met him at professional meetings a dozen times since. German-American History as Written Decades Ago Frizzell (Director of Libraries, Northwest Missouri State University) The German-American Experience.Īmherst and New York: Prometheus Books, 2000.
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