A Bell for Adano, 159

Adamic, Louis, 113–114

Adorno, 83

African American xi, 52–57, 116, 168–169, 202–203, 256, 269

Aglialoro, 81

Albanese, Dominick, 136

Albano, John, 138

Aleandri, Emelise, 33

Ambro, Jerome, 59–60, 205

American Committee for Italian Democracy, 218–219

American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, 141

American Labor Party, 64–65, 121, 209, 245

Americanization, 8, 9, 42, 117, 133, 213

AMG (Allied Military Governor), 225–226

Anfuso, Victor, 129

Antonini, Luigi, 5, 47, 64–66, 117, 121–122, 214–215, 218, 248

Anuskewicz, Benjamin, 128, 152

Anzovino, Susan, 77

Aquila, Philip V., 79–80, 241

Ascoli, Max, 48, 214

Attonito, Ralph, 134

Azzaro, Dom, 178

Baldanzi, 122

Barolini, Helen, 112

Basile, Joseph, 149

Basilone, John, 156, 188–191, 267, 272

Battaglia, Salvatore, 154–155

Battle of the Bulge, 149, 268

Bellanca, 27, 47, 122, 157

Belmonte, Peter, 240

Benjamin Franklin High School, 57, 201–202

Bennett, Floyd, 27, 28, 68

Bentivegna, Joseph, 151

Bertelli, Angelo, 261–262

Bertoldi, Vito, 187

Bertuzzi, Sam, 281

Bianchi, William, 155, 186–187

Biddle, Francis, 125, 127, 142–144, 155, 160–161

Bilbo, Theodore, 156

Boston’s North End, 116

Boys Town of Italy, 231

Brennan, Earl, 165, 179, 248–249

Brescia, Peter, 154, 275–276

Brokaw, Tom xii, 179, 187, 265–266, 274

Brooklyn Dodgers, 69, 98, 292

Brunetti, Cledo, 136

Bushwick High School, 101

Cacchione, Peter V., 65

Canzoneri, 18

Capobianco, 83

Capoferri, 239

Capozzoli, Louis, 122, 208, 210

Capra, Frank, 156–159

Caputo, John, Jr., 277

Carbuto, Alfred, 87

Carnera, Primo, 54–55

Carrol-Abbing, Monsignor John, 231

Casamento, Anthony, 26, 191–192

Castelli, 82, 241

Catalanotti, 47, 122

Cavaioli, Frank, 89

Celler, Emanuel, 50

Cesare, A., 87

Cesare, Rick, 112

Cheli, Ralph, 188