TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - labor strikes
KW - immigrants
KW - trade unions
KW - Polish Americans
KW - Slavic Americans
KW - Austrian Americans
KW - Westinghouse Electric Corporation
KW - steel industry
KW - Protestants
AU - Victor Francis White
AB - Peter Domanig, a 17-year-old Austrian immigrant after World War I, leaves his foster father and the comforts of 1920s suburban New York to earn a power position in Pittsburgh’s steel industry. Time writes, “From [Pittsburgh] on, his progress reads like a guided tour of the steel industry from the slag up, conducted by a man who knows his subject and loves to talk shop.”
BT - Peter Domanig series, 2/4
C1 - 1920s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Oakland; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Pittsburgh; St. Paul Cathedral; Syria Mosque; Downtown; Duquesne Club; Esplen; Lawrenceville;
C4 - Labor; Immigrant; Bildungsroman
CY - Indianapolis
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Carnegie Mellon University is referred to as Carnegie Technical Institute, as it was then known.
N2 - Peter Domanig, a 17-year-old Austrian immigrant after World War I, leaves his foster father and the comforts of 1920s suburban New York to earn a power position in Pittsburgh’s steel industry. Time writes, “From [Pittsburgh] on, his progress reads like a guided tour of the steel industry from the slag up, conducted by a man who knows his subject and loves to talk shop.”
PB - Bobbs-Merrill
PP - Indianapolis
PY - 1954
RN - Victor Francis White (1902-81), born in Vienna, Austria, immigrated at 17 to America. He earned degrees at Rutgers, Yale, and the Sorbonne, taught French and wrote for Life and Time. He died in Taos, New Mexico.
EP - 476 p.
T2 - Peter Domanig series, 2/4
TI - Peter Domanig in America: Steel
ER -