EARNED, NOT GIVEN: A Vietnamese Immigrant's Journey to the Top 1% of American Academia

The click of a pistol cocked against his brother's temple. Three desperate escapes across the storm-tossed South China Sea. Twenty lives lost in a single night on the water. At eleven years old, Daniel Nguyen learned that freedom has a terrible price.
Surviving communist terror, betrayal, and near-drowning, he arrived in America as a thirteen-year-old refugee who spoke almost no English. What followed was an extraordinary American journey: from barefoot walks to school in Huế to captaining h...