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Excerpt from A Dutch Boy: Fifty Years After In recent years American literature has been enriched by certain autobiographies of men and women who had been born abroad, but who had been brought to this coun try, where they grew up as loyal citizens of our great nation. Such assimilated Americans had to face not only the usual conditions confronting a stranger in a strange land, but had to develop within themselves the noble conception of Americanism that was later to become for them a aming gospel. Andrew Carnegie, the canny Scotch lad who be gan as a cotton weaver's assistant, became a steel magnate and an eminent constructive philanthropist. Jacob Riis, the ambitious Dane, told in The Making of an American the story of his rise to prominence as a social and civic worker in New York. Mary Antin, who was brought from a Russian ghetto at the age of thirteen, gave us in The Promised Land a most impressive interpretation of Ameri ca's significance to the foreign-born. The very title of her book was a ash of inspiration. To this group of notable autobiographies belongs The Americanization of Edward Boh, which received, from Co lumbia University, the Joseph Pulitzer Prize of one thou sand dollars as the best American biography teaching patriotic and unselfish service to the Nation and at the same time illustrating an eminent example. The judges who framed that decision could not have stated more aptly the scope and value of the book. It is the story of an unusual education, a conspicuous achievement, and an ideal now in course of realization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a