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The Rise of David Levinsky

Year

2011

Language

ENGLISH

Publication Information

Neeland Media LLC

Summary

Abraham Cahan (1860-1951) was a Lithuanian-born American communalist newspaper editor, politician, and novelist. "The Rise of David Levinsky" was written in response to a request from "McClure's" magazine for articles recounting the success of East European immigrants in the U.S. It aims to be a memoir written thirty years after the young David Levinsky arrived in the U.S. with four cents in his pocket. Since, he has accumulated more than two million dollars and is the owner of a leading cloak-and-suit factory, but is still not pleased.

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