The Uprooted Author:Oscar Handlin Here is a Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the great migration that made the American People. Oscar Handlin starts his story in Europe at the time when the end of peasant life gave the impetus to the vast movement across the Atlantic. The greater part of his book tells how 35 million people came to America and what they found when they arrived ... more »here. From painstaking and absorbing work - powerful and absorbing in the deep emotion and compassion that he, the son of such immigrants, has put into his book. Here is a work which penetrates to the inner meaning of the American immigration experience, one that not only shows brilliantly how American society was affected by it, but also gets into the minds and hears of the people who were involved in it.« less