| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

One Day for Democracy: Independence Day and the Americanization of Iron Range Immigrants. By Mary Lou Nemanic. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. xviii, 252 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1730-0.)

Mary Lou Nemanic performed field research in small towns on the Mesabi Iron Range, a peripheral, isolated, and immigrant mining region in northeastern Minnesota. Her resulting study, which balances anthropology, folk studies, sociology, cultural studies, and history, describes the activities and traditions by which Nordic and Slavic immigrants and their descendents have celebrated Independence Day. It is the story of the "formation of an alternative Americanism expressing the needs and values of ethnic groups whose members shared identities as both workers and new Americans" (p. 2).

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