New Revised Edition Our foreign-born citizens
By: by Annie E. S. Beard, revised by William A. Fahey.
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell company
Published: 1955
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: United States -- Biography.
First sentence: "The king of ornithological painters" was the flattering salutation given on October 1, 1828, by the great Italian painter Gerard to John James Audubon, after a review of his wonderful life-size drawings of the birds of America.
Description: Here is a collection of 29 inspiring life stories. They are the stories of great Americans, each of whom was born in another land and came to this country to make his way. All of them became valuable citizens of their adopted country. not only because they took full advantage of the privileges of citizenship, but also because they willingly assumed the responsibilities of that citizenship.

They have contributed to every phase of American life: art, music, industry, agriculture, science, politics, literature.  In each case the author has traced the beginnings and early life of the citizen, his coming to this country, and the contribution he has made to our way of life. America has profited enormously form the work of her immigrants. This book brings recognition to these American citizens of foreign birth whose contributions to our country are too often overlooked. (dust jacket)
Notes: CONTENTS:  John James Audubon /  Louis Agassiz / Carl Schurz / Andrew Carnegie / John Muir / Alexander Graham Bell / Joseph Pulitzer / Augustus St. Gaudens / Jacob A. Riis / Samuel Gompers / Felix Adler / Ottmar Mergenthaler / Michael Pupin / Charles Proteus Steinmetz / Hideyo Noghuchi / Angelo Patri / Albert Einstein / Hendrik Willem van Loon / Walter Gropius / Philip Murray / Irving Berlin / Knute Kenneth Rockne / Igor Sikorsky / George Grosz / Raymond Loewy / Spyros Skouras / Dimitri Mitropoulos / Judith Anderson / Alfred Hitchcock.