Beginning Anew

Beginning Anew is a work of memory and history, a distinguished historian’s account of his family’s immigration to the United States in the aftermath of World War II and of his coming of age and education in a new land. The author, Jan de Vries, raised in Minnesota, is Professor Emeritus of History and Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also served as a dean and vice provost. In Beginning Anew he reconstructs the world of his Dutch parents and ponders the factors pus