to the United States. "Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history."
Handlin, a reigning figure in the field, has written or edited numerous works on immigration, among them
Immigration as a Factor in Ameri-can History (Prentice-Hall, 1965, out of print) and a study of Boston's Im- migrants (Harvard, 1959, cloth & paper). Other general works: Philip Taylor's Distant Magnet (Harper, 1972, paper only) and Maldwyn Allen Jones's American Immigration (Univ. of Chicago,...