An Immigrant in the 1960s: Finding Hope and Success in New York City - Couverture souple

Petschauer, Dr. Peter W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1660813166 ISBN 13 : 9781660813162

Editeur : Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

This new book will remind you of the City before the new corona virus began its assault. Then I was an immigrant without the inhibitions of a late teen that might have restrained an older person. I was optimistic and ignorant. Yet I enjoyed several advantages: as a white European I was invisible in a society often hostile to immigrants, I had a respectable educational background and I learned to network quickly. Most importantly, I landed jobs that adjusted me to corporate America, along with picking up English; what else was I to do? Obtaining an advanced education was due in large part to the openness and ready support of those around me, including initially my family, and within months colleagues, girl friends and fellow students. Then too I happened into work and physical environments that supported my Americanization. Salaries were such that one could afford to live and thrive in the City. Today no clerk in the same job and even a slightly higher numerical salary can afford its astronomical food and rental prices. This then is a coming of age story in a world that is under threat. This book shows that it does not need to be a loss. The son of an SS officer, barely 12 years after the war, Peter was sent to live with American relatives in a country that could have been hostile to him. He arrived with no financial resources and not much knowledge of the language, destined to work in his uncle's knitting mill. The story of how he overcame numerous obstacles to gain a Ph.D. and become a professor and an author is engrossing and inspirational. It is also a good humored, well-written coming of age story truly in the mold of fairy tales, Horatio Alger's success sagas, and Ben Franklin's autobiography.Zohara Boyd, PhD, Professor Emeritus of English, Appalachian State University and Holocaust Survivor.Petschauer has done an extraordinary job of creating a page turner in depicting his early life as an immigrant in New York City. On his pages the people and events he experienced come to life. Paul H. Elovitz, PhD, Professor, Historian, Research Psychoanalyst, Director of the Psychohistory Forum, Editor, Clio's Psyche.Experiencing New York in the 60s … through Peter’s eyes as he writes about it in an easy to read and incredibly personally revealing and humble autobiography, has been a reminiscent and eye-opening experience.Susan Hein, MPS, LP, NCPsyA, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, professor, historian, and author.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1660813166
• ISBN 13: 9781660813162
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 190
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