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First hand lives on the page: immigration, vocation, family and the long work of becoming someone.
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Jim Van Laak's extraordinary journey from fighter pilot to space program leader reveals how global cooperation can reach beyond our differences.
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Greenhorn is a luminous memoir tracing Alex Krieger's journey from a displaced childhood, arriving in America at age nine as a child of Holocaust survivors, to a distinguished career as an architect, planner, and Harvard professor. With a poet's sensitivity and a craftsman's precision, Krieger reflects on the greenhorn's instinct to embrace the values of an adopted nation while remaining an eyewitness to its paradoxes. The result is a masterwork of memory and place that honors both allegiance to a new country and the origins that shaped him.