An Echo in My Blood: The Search for a Family's Hidden Past.
by Weisman, Alan
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San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1999.. 3 p.l., 426 p. Born in Minneapolis of Russian Jewish immigrants, the journalist author "discovers a universal reality that all immigrant families, in order to survive in a new world, must create protective myths." This book delves into the author's concerns for Latin America, and the failed War on Drugs; on ecology and environmental degradation and Bush I's lack of concern for it; his father's service in the 30th Infantry, 3rd Division in World War II; of pursuing the question of his grandfather's murder in Russia; and many other subjects. Fine except for a Library of Congress surplus stamp on the flyleaf. Stock #101,289. Autobiography
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Throughout his childhood in Minneapolis, Alan Weisman was told that his grandfather was killed by Communists in the Ukraine at the turn of the century. When, as an adult, he meets a long-estranged uncle who tells a very different version of the story, Alan embarks on a search for the truth that takes him to the chemical ruin of Chernobyl and back in time to the Bolshevik Revolution. He discovers the paradoxical rationale for his father's vehement political and social conservatism as well as a more universal truth: that all immigrant families, in order to survive in a new world, must create protective family myths. One of these myths hides the true fate of his grandfather-a nightmare too terrible to express. At once an examination of his rootless generation and a look at the hopes and dreams of his forefathers, An Echo in My Blood takes you from the secret heart of an America you might not recognize to the pogroms of turn-of-the-century Kiev.
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- Title
- An Echo in My Blood: The Search for a Family's Hidden Past.
- Author
- Weisman, Alan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1999.
- Keywords
- Autobiography: S-Z
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- Biography; Survival; Immigration;
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