Born in the USA

  • Born in the USA: The American Book of Origins
    By Trevor Homer

    After he was framed in a rape case and jailed for thirty to fifty years, Luciano appointed Costello as acting boss of the Luciano crime family. At the end of World War II, Luciano was deported to Sicily, leaving Costello as undisputed ...

  • Born in the USA: The American Book of Origins
    By Trevor Homer

    Looks at America's contribution to new devices, products, sports, vehicles, music, religions, medicines, and leisure pursuits, including bubble wrap, Kool-Aid, kidney transplants, microwave ovens, and heart pacemakers.

  • Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First
    By Marsden Wagner

    At a meeting of the Illinois Medical Society in Chicago ( the Illinois chapter of ACOG ) , hospital organizations testified that ABCs are dangerous . They had no scientific data to back up their statements , just testimonials that they ...

  • Born in the USA: A Story of Japanese America, 1889-1947
    By Frank Chin

    ... Sessue Hayakawa in the in Li'l Tokyo production of Typhoon . Ince bought Typhoon , and in a change of pace from his westerns , his company made a film of it with Sessue Hayakawa in the lead . Reginald Barker directed . The film made ...

  • Born in the USA: A Story of Japanese America, 1889-1947
    By Frank Chin

    This unique oral history presents the Japanese American saga as told by those who lived through it. Frank Chin details the lives of first and second generation Japanese Americans before...