Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Au of...

In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, comes this sweeping history of Asian Americans.

In this expansive book, Ronald Takaki writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. internment camps during World Wa...