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Language English Publication date 1948 Pages 58 pp OCLC 1417159 | 5/5 AbeBooks Publisher Julian Messner, Inc. Media type Print (hardback) Originally published 1948 Genre Novel Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joe Magarac and His USA Citizen Papers is a novel for children by the American writer Irwin Shapiro (1911–1981) set in the steel valley of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It tells the story of the "legendary" steelworker Joe Magarac, who when a mill boss tells him that he needs $1,000 to get his American citizenship papers, goes on a working spree to earn the money. Magarac gets angry, however, when a U.S. Congressman tells him to go back to the Old Country where he came from. Magarac rips up rails and knocks down buildings and in a climatic rage in the manner of King Kong scales the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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