The American Dream: Europeans in the New World

From Columbus's 1492 voyage to the commercial ascent of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss, and Friedrich Trumpf—the grandfather of Donald Trump—this is the sweeping history of Europeans in North America. In the nineteenth century, thirty million people—Germans, Irish, Scots, Russians, Hungarians, Italians and many others—left the old continent, fleeing poverty, racism or political repression, hoping to make a fortune and realize the American dream.