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.