Ergebnis für "New York Dreams" in Politik & Sozialwissenschaften

Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history - including Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, and Desert Storm - but a history that until now has been known only on the surface.

The Snakehead is a panoramic tale of international intrigue and a dramatic portrait of the underground economy in which America's 12 million illegal immigrants live. Based on hundreds of interviews, Patrick Radden Keefe's sweeping narrative tells the story not only of Sister Ping, but of the gangland gunslingers who worked for her, the immigration and law enforcement officials who pursued her, and the generation of penniless immigrants who risked death and braved a 17,000 mile odyssey so that they could realize their own version of the American dream.

.הפודקאסט ׳יחולמים ניו יורק״ מביא סיפורים אישיים, חוויות מהנעשה בעיר הגדולה ושיחות על תחומי ההתמחות של מי שחי בניו יורק, מבקר בה וגם חולם עליה.