Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2001. [Vol. 7.] Eger Journal of American Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 27)

Book review - András Tarnóc: Csillag András: Joseph Pulitzer és az amerikai sajtó. [Joseph Pulitzer and the American Journalism]

the traditional immigrant. While he became part of the second wave of immigration to the United States, and acted as one of the main representatives of the first significant Hungarian arrival contingent, his original destination was not the U.S.. His restless spirit originally attracted him toward Maximilian's failed Mexican expedition, in fact potentially serving the emperor of the very nation which put down the Hungarian revolution which his father and uncle so actively supported. Pulitzer wanted to join an international legion of adventurers fighting in Mexico and he remained in New York primarily due to economic reasons. Once again, the fact that he did not seek the assistance of the local Hungarian community should be pointed out. Instead he followed the traditional American migrant's pattern of movement, participating in the second reincarnation of the Westward Expansion reaching the Gateway to the West, St. Louis. Thus, for Pulitzer, the U.S. did not originally function as a pull factor. He wanted to escape from home, and Maximillian's Mexican adventure supplied ample pretext for the realization of his intentions. The examination of Pulitzer's acculturation process yields the following conclusions. Csillag's thorough compilation of data relating to Pulitzer's Hungarian connections leads us to believe that he can be characterized as a disaffiliate. As he left Hungary, he nursed a tremendous grudge and dissatisfaction toward that country and this partially explains why he maintained an emotional and physical distance from the very beginning of his immigrant career from the Hungarian community and the country itself. He rarely or never spoke Hungarian in public, and seemed to severe all connections with his family and further Hungarian arrivals. His relationship, or the lack of it, with his brother Albert is instructive, as while both men were involved in the same business in the same city, they rarely contacted each other. Pulitzer, however maintained some connections with the Hungarian community, and the best example of his efforts in this regard is the welcoming of Mihály Munkácsy to the United States. However, in this case Munkácsy's appreciation was not primarily driven by a Hungarian consciousness, but by a cosmopolitan's desire for genuine artistic value. The liminal consciousness of immigrants can be demonstrated by other elements as well. After his health started to decline, Pulitzer 189