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Gloriously supported by photographs, diagrams, and maps, this five-chapter overview offers information about America's immigrants. "In the Beginning" describes diversity and how it is created. "A New Start" focuses on the mechanisms in place for journeying from country to country-passports and visas, Ellis Island and Angel Island. The most comprehensive section, "Who Are We?," chronicles those who have come from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania to make a home in the United States. Readers will delight in "Coming Together," which features plants and animals, food, sports, games, holidays, and music from myriad backgrounds that Americans now enjoy. The last section, "All Together Now," discusses the strengths of diversity, featuring significant Americans. The author's note begins with this disclaimer: "It is impossible to include every group that has made contributions to life in America…I would need 10,000 books to do that!" Masoff, of course, is right, but this book is a most successful beginning. Browsers will find it both a mirror and a window for their own lives.
—Alexa SandmannCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information.