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Joe Magarac and His USA Citizen Papers

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Joe Magarac and His USA Citizen Papers
First edition
AuthorIrwin Shapiro (1911–1981)
Cover artistJames Daugherty
LanguageEnglish
PublisherJulian Messner, Inc.
Publication date
1948
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages58 pp
OCLC1417159

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.[1]

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  1. ^ "Joe Magarac and His USA Citizen Papers (1979), Publishers Weekly, 1979". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)