A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

Ronald Takaki's "brilliant revisionist history of America" (Publishers Weekly) is a landmark work of American history retells American history from the bottom up, through the lives of many minorities — Native Americans, African Americans, Jewish Americans, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and others — who helped create this country's mighty economy and rich mosaic culture. 

A Different Mirror brilliantly illuminates our country's defining strengths as it reveals America as a nation peopled by the world.