Synopsis
It all started with a simple crop failure that forced the author's grandfather to migrate from a small backward Greek village to the U.S. a hundred years ago. It evolved into a saga of tragedy and triumph spanning four generations and two continents. This is a chronicle of the struggles of a Greek immigrant family to survive and prosper in the U.S. and the lives of other immigrants who crossed paths with the Michalopoulos clan. Partly an autobiography, it is also an account of people coping with events that shook the world during the last century, like the Armenian genocide, the Jewish holocaust and the Second World War, or uniquely Greek calamities such as the war with Turkey in 1920-1921, and the civil war of the 1940's.
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About the Author
Constantine Michalopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in 1940. He received his early education in Greece. Later he studied in the US where he was awarded a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and a PhD from Columbia University. An economist by training, he served for many years as a senior official in the US government and the World Bank. He has published extensively on topics of trade and development. His first published work was on the theory of migration. His later books include Aid and Development and Developing Countries in the WTO. Now retired, he splits his time between the Chesapeake Bay and Rafina on the coast east of Athens.
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