After the United States and Great Britain had combined their sections of Germany, American GIs would occasionally bivouac in farmer Brandt's courtyard in the newly formed Bizonia. On those days, their trucks would be parked in a neat ...
On the day that May Ling left the city, he walked out of his office at half-past four, walked into a place on Battery Street called Madam X's, and put down three shots of what was euphemistically called rye whiskey.
Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life...
Looks at the history of immigration in the United States and includes brief profiles of many famous immigrants
At a time when National Guard units are deployed alongside vigilante Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico border, where the death toll in the past decade now exceeds 9/11's, Philippe Legrain has written the first book about immigration that looks ...