Vartan Gregorian Bücher

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"Defining America" wurde von Pulitzerpreisträger David Halberstam zusammengestellt, der führende amerikanische Intellektuelle um einen Beitrag zum Charakter der Nation gebeten hat. "Defining America" rückt unterschiedliche Kapitel aus Amerikas Geschichte ins Licht. Die "GI Bill of Rights" von 1944 bot Kriegsheimkehrern aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg die Möglichkeit, das College zu besuchen. Schon der "Morrill Act" von 1862 bestimmte, die Mittel aus dem Verkauf von bundeseigenem Grundbesitz für die Einrichtungen von Colleges zu verwenden. Ziel war eine praktisch orientierte Hochschulbildung für die ganze Gesellschaft.

In this humorous, learned, and moving memoir, Vartan Gregorian recounts his journey from an impoverished childhood as a Christian Armenian in Muslim Tabriz to cultured citizen of the world.Gregorian's odyssey begins in an obscure poor quarter of a provincial city (thought by some to be the location of the Garden of Eden). Childhood centered on his brilliant, beloved, illiterate grandmother who taught him so much, the beauty of Church, school, American movies, and the larger world he read about in his borrowed books.From there, he continues on to a Beirut lycée, Stanford University, and the presidencies of the New York Public Library, Brown University, and Carnegie Corporation.Like Jimmy Carter in An Hour Before Daylight , and in the tradition of Nabokov, Jill Ker Conway, and V. S. Naipaul, he tells us that education is an openness to everything and describes his public and private life as one education after another. This is a love story about life.