Overview: Offers a new and novel way of exploring the influence of Italy upon the United States.Argues that if we wish to understand the United States it is vital to examine how they imagine themselves.DemonstrIt is almost impossible to imagine the United States without making reference to Italy. There is scarcely any aspect of American culture untouched by Italy—its history, art, architecture, fashion, film, music, the mafia, or even more viscerally its food. Italy occupies a space of near mythical proportion in the American imagination. When many Americans think of, or dream about and imagi
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