This is an extraordinary book about the life and achievements of first generation immigrants who have enriched the United States of America and the whole world. The book is well illustrated and wonderfully narrated. The biographies include diplomat, musician, scientist, athlete, cook, writer, and entrepreneur, to name a few. The breadth and diversity in the book is really an eye-opener even for open-minded pro-immigration people and breaks the stereotypical image of immigrants that we are often subjected to in the media.
I recommend this book for people of all ages and for those whose ancestors came many centuries ago. For the newcomers, like myself, and my kids, the book presents the opportunities and careers that are available to us. My daughter who is in high school enjoyed the book very much and felt inspired by it. For people of long ancestry in the United States, this book will appeal in a very different way, I believe. The book will take us back in time when our ancestors came and had to find their way to success and be a contributing citizen.
This book could be a wonderful gift item for any first generation kid and should be part of all libraries to remind the next generation how immigrants contributed to make the United States and the world a more colorful and better place.
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