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Can I read 17 Cents & a Dream: My Incredible Journey from the USSR to Living the American Dream on EtoBox?
17 Cents & a Dream: My Incredible Journey from the USSR to Living the American Dream by Milstein, Daniel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is 17 Cents & a Dream: My Incredible Journey from the USSR to Living the American Dream about?
On a cold December night in 1991, a young boy with seventeen cents in his pocket first set foot in the United States. Twenty years later that young man found himself the founder and CEO of a Multi-Million dollar corporation. Daniel Milstein’s harrowing story about how his mother, father and brother escaped the oppressive government of the U.S.S.R and immigrated to the United States and carved out a life for themselves has been described as the quintessential immigrant story of the era. 17 Cents and a Dream begins with a candid, gripping account of the Milstein family’s tough life in Kiev, Ukraine under the oppressive government of the former Soviet Union. He recalls how he and his family were affected by the 1986 explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: Daniel was ten years old, and the disaster took place only 78 miles from their home, killing 100,000 people and spreading poisonous radiation throughout the environment. A few years later the family, struggling against poverty, government oppression, and anti-Semitism, made a secret plan to flee to America. After a narrow escape, the family arrived in Ann Arbor, Michigan with no understanding of English and few belongings.
Who reads 17 Cents & a Dream: My Incredible Journey from the USSR to Living the American Dream?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Milstein, Daniel
- Publisher
- Gold Star Publishing
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (81 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14