Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Melting Pot Goes to War -- 1. Heyday of the New Immigrant Enclave -- I. Your Country Needs You -- 2. "Get in Out of the Draft": Raising Volunteers and the Italian Response in New Haven -- 3. "Not as a Jew but as a Citizen": The Draft and New York Jewry -- II. Training the New Immigrant Soldier -- 4. Being Italian in the Yankee Division -- 5. Being Jewish in the National Army -- III. Home Front -- 6. "More Than Ever, We Feel Proud to Be Italians" -- 7. "New York Jewry Must Do Its Duty" -- 8. "They Were Good Americans": Survival and Victory on the Western Front -- Epilogue: A New Voice in Politics
Summary
Good Americans' examines the participation of Italian and Jewish Americans, both on the home front and overseas, in World War I. Christoper M. Sterba argues that immigrant communities played a significant role in American public life for the first time during this conflict
