My American Dream: A Memoir
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798596378382
- Series
- My American Dream
- Pages
- 110
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-02-28
- Author
- Elizabeth Tepper Konviser
Description
An ailing immigrant widower during the Great Depression and World War II not only raises two young girls, but instills in them the higher ideals, the courage and confidence to fulfill their aspirations, graduate college, earn masters' degrees and become teachers and mothers. Elizabeth Tepper Konviser beautifully illuminates how human beings need not be victims of circumstance, but can willfully determine our destiny. Despite losing her mother at age 4, and being subjected to dire poverty during the Depression, she counts herself lucky to have been raised by a father who had a boundless determination to live and an unparalleled ability to inspire in his girls a sense of the higher good.
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