The Unknown Swedes: A Book about Swedes and America, Past and Present

by Vilhelm Moberg

In these nine essays Vilhelm Moberg blends history with poetic license to create an America viewed by a Swedish emigrant in the middle of the 20th century.

Roger McKnight's translation of The Unknown Swedes is the first English-language book to reveal Moberg's views on emigration, America, and Sweden. In the 1950 edition of The Unknown Swedes, Moberg was guardedly optimistic about the United States. In 1968 Moberg, distraught...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080931486X
• ISBN13: 9780809314867
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"