Lost in America: A Journey with My Father

Sherwin Nuland's powerful story traces the crumbling of his father's American Dream. As the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth, 19-year-old Meyer Nudelman emigrated to America from Russia and found, instead of expanding opportunities, a constricted life of sweatshop jobs, an overcrowded Bronx apartment shared with his mother-in-law and sister-in-law, illness, and the premature deaths of his wife and first son. Despairing and bitter, Nudelman saw his own health deteriorate to the poi…