A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story

by Tom Gjelten

Book Overview

The dramatic and compelling story of the transformation of America during the last fifty years, told through a handful of families in one suburban county in Virginia that has been utterly changed by recent immigration. In the fifty years since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the foreign-born population of the United States has tripled. Significantly, these immigrants are not coming from Europe, as was the case before 1965, but from all corners...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476743851
• ISBN13: 9781476743851
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"