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Becoming American: A Political Memoir
Cary D. Lowe
出版Black Rose Writing, 2020-04-30
主題Biography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsBiography & Autobiography / PoliticalBiography & Autobiography / Jewish
ISBN16843346249781684334629
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6zbPDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Becoming American is the inspiring story of the author’s transformation from a child of Holocaust survivors in post-war Europe to an American lawyer, academic, and activist associated with such famed political leaders as Robert Kennedy, George McGovern, Jerry Brown, and Tom Hayden. Searching for his great-grandparents’ graves in a hidden cemetery outside Prague makes him recall his experiences of becoming American: listening to Army Counterintelligence agents gathered at his home in Austria; a tense encounter with Russian soldiers; seeing Jim Crow racism in the South during his first visit to the United States; becoming an American citizen in his teens; having his citizenship challenged by border guards; fearing for his new country upon witnessing the Watts riots; exhilaration at rising to leadership positions in organizations shaping government policies; and advancing the American dream as a real estate lawyer, helping develop entire new communities.