Becoming American

<p><u><strong>2020 Discovery Awards Winner - Politics/Current Events</strong></u></p><p><strong>A well-written memoir chronicling the intriguing life and influences of a post-war Jewish child who becomes an American lawyer and activist. -<em>Sublime Book Review</em></strong></p><p><em>Becoming American</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p><ul><li><strong>*Second edition (December 15 2023) expanded with additional material and updated for an improved reading experience.</strong></li></ul>