How long does it take to read La Storia?
Jerre Gerlando Mangione, Jerre Mangione, Ben Morreale
La Storia by Jerre Gerlando Mangione, Jerre Mangione, Ben Morreale takes about 9 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 19 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1992. 508 pages, about 139,700 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Some five and a half million fellow Italians followed Cristoforo Colombo of Genoa across the Atlantic, most of them within the past century. La Storia (the word means "history" as well as "story") is the first comprehensive account of the Italian American immigration, combining historical research with the gripping personal narratives of the immigrants themselves and their descendants - first-person stories of the adventurers, missionaries, artisans, laborers, and. Peasants of both sexes who settled throughout the United States, surviving hardship to become an integral and valued part of our national fabric. Their story begins in the Old Country, where desperate poverty, especially in the South, forced entire families to uproot themselves. After a difficult passage, the immigrants faced new challenges in America, most notably the fierce discrimination that unfairly branded them a criminal race and to an extent continues to the. Present day, alongside the far wider acceptance a true assessment of their characteristics and achievements has brought them. Above all, this is a story of people - people in all their warmth and variety, from those who remain unsung outside the affection and respect of their immediate families to the talented and celebrated - from Verrazzano, Da Ponte, La Guardia, Sinatra, DiMaggio, Puzo, Iacocca, and Cuomo to De Niro, Scorsese, Madonna, and many more - who have touched. The lives of millions of fellow Americans.
Subjects: Italian Americans, History
