The Great Disappearing ACT Germans in New York City, 1880-1930

"The Great Disappearing Act is both an outstanding social history of a leading urban ethnic group and a poignant reminder of the power of external forces to unsettle and undermine the most successful social experiments."- James Fisher, author of On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York
"In 'The Great Disappearing Act', German New York fades into the background," by Greg Young- The Bowery Boys
The Great Disappearing Act: An Interview With Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson- The Gotham Center Blog
"The Great Disappearing Act deals with a major issue in US immigration and ethnic history and focuses on one of the largest urban ethnic concentrations in the US-one which has often gotten far too little consideration in the past. Ziegler- McPherson's excellent scholarship makes this a thoroughly engaging read that is both important and unique."- Stan Nadel, editor of Asian Migrants in Europe

"Ziegler-Mcpherson's work provides access to a wealth of research that not only illuminates the rise and fall of a German immigrant community in New York, but also expands our understanding of America's long history of nativism and aggressive capitalism, and its complex, ever-fraught relationship with 'new' immigrants. And the question of language shift as the primary signifier of integration or assimilation is, of course, one that America faces even today, and deserves further examination."

- Kevin Kurdylo, Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies