Jack

University High School 1212 W. Springfield Urbana, IL 61801 September 30, 2008 Marc Aronson Author and Historian Ginee Seo Books New York, New York Dear Mr. Aronson, Your book was well written. However, there were a couple things that I disagreed with due to the diverse range your book covers. I really thought you should have gone into more detail about the Chinese immigrants working on the railroad in the late 19­­th century, because that was an important reason that these immigrants were tolerated in the first place. I bet you also noticed the parallel between the Chinese immigrants at this time and the Mexican immigrants doing the dirty jobs in Texas and California now, but you say little about Mexican Immigrants, so did that just not fit with the flow of the story? One more thing: In Chapter 15, about Hitler, you stop and mention how you cannot stay unbiased about this issue, and tell us your problems with how Germans today can act so natural. I understand this, and you are entitled to your opinion, but I would have put that in the epilogue style chapter. You have two distinct writing styles in your book (as a human being who is prejudiced, and as a historian), and in my opinion this cadence doesn't fit as well there as it would at the end. Other than these minor issues, I felt you got past your own biases pretty well and wrote this book objectively enough to be quite compelling. I look forward to meeting you on Friday. Sincerely, Jack Gillette