A very good read about time past and gone!! An intuitive look at America from a forigner. Barzini is able to step back, view our culture, and observe how all the pieces fit together and how it had an effect on him as an adolescent. It helped me understand who we are.

O AMERICA: When You and I Were Young

BARZINI, Luigi

Harper Collins Publishers Inc.

The Europeans

An examination of European culture and history and of the nations that must be the base of a unified Europe backs up the eminent scholar-journalist's call for a Europe with one will, one voice, and a unified foreign policy

History

Europe

Penguin??Books

The veteran Italian journalist-author recalls his early years in the United States as student and reporter and reflects, from the vantage point of experience, on his and the nation's onetime confident innocence and challenging hope

O America: When You and I Were Young

Literature & Fiction

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. very good (plus!) condition and very good price for this paperback edition of a classic travel book, apparently unread by its journalist owner. Peking to Paris a journey across two continents in 1907. xxiii,357p,[16]p of plates ill 1map,ports 20cm pbk. . Originally published: London : Grant Richards, 1907. .

Peking to Paris : A Journey Across Two Continents in 1907

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Penguin Travel Library

Italians

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Ever since the Goths swept down over the Alps, Italy has been prone to invasion by armies, by poets and painters in search of inspiration, by archaeologists seeking to resurrect the classical past, and by millions of tourists bewitched by a somewhat vague picture at the back of their minds by an amalgam of sun, fun and Chianti.Luigi Barzini's book touches on nearly every aspect of Italian life; it examines Italy's many faces, landscapes, cities and peoples, it studies the Italians' habits, vices, virtues, hopes, failures and achievements, past, present and future.  Doctor Barzini shows us Italy through the eyes of foreigners and through the eyes of Italians.  Most important of all, he shows us Italy from his own highly original point of view.

The Italians

Hamish Hamilton

O, America!

In this consummate portrait of the Italian people, bestselling author, publisher, journalist, and politician Luigi Barzini delves deeply into the Italian national character, discovering both its great qualities and its imperfections.Barzini is startlingly frank as he examines “the two Italies”: the one that created and nurtured such luminaries as Dante Alighieri, St. Thomas of Aquino, and Leonardo da Vinci; the other, feeble and prone to catastrophe, backward in political action if not in thought, “invaded, ravaged, sacked, and humiliated in every century.” Deeply ambivalent, Barzini approaches his task with a combination of love, hate, disillusion, and affectionate paternalism, resulting in a completely original, thoughtful, and probing picture of his countrymen.

Travel

Atheneum/Hamish Hamilton

Americas

Simon&Schuster

In this consummate portrait of the Italian people, bestselling author, publisher, journalist, and politician Luigi Barzini delves deeply into the Italian national character, discovering both its great qualities and its imperfections. Barzini is startlingly frank as he examines “the two Italies”: the one that created and nurtured such luminaries as Dante Alighieri, St. Thomas of Aquino, and Leonardo da Vinci; the other, feeble and prone to catastrophe, backward in political action if not in thought, “invaded, ravaged, sacked, and humiliated in every century.” Deeply ambivalent, Barzini approaches his task with a combination of love, hate, disillusion, and affectionate paternalism, resulting in a completely original, thoughtful, and probing picture of his countrymen.

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O AMERICA: When You and I Were Young

The Europeans

O America: When You and I Were Young

Peking to Paris : A Journey Across Two Continents in 1907

Italians

The Italians

O, America!

The Italians

The Europeans

The Italians