Italian- Americans

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Italian- Americans: It has been said that Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra probably did more than anyone else of their time to bring Italian - Americans into the mainstream of their country’s popular culture during the 1930s and1940s. Since then, there have been thousand of Italian - Americans who flourished in America. Baseball players, actors, singers who in some cases changed American culture.

Presented by: Evan Weiner is a speaker and author with a radio and TV background. He has about 90 topics and has spoken globally. Evan was a contributing columnist for New York Newsday (2001-05); AM-New York, the New York Press, the Bergen (New Jersey) Record, the Philadelphia Metro, Washington Examiner, Orlando Sentinel, Rhode Island’s Sports Journal, and for The Chicago Tribune’s Spanish Hoy! newspapers in N.Y., Chicago and LA between 2002.