The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker - Hardcover

Liu, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679448624 ISBN 13: 9780679448624

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1998

Synopsis

A young former speechwriter for President Clinton and the child of Chinese immigrants explores the place of Asian Americans in contemporary American politics and society, the nature of race, and the price of assimilation. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Eric Liu has written a powerful memoir, a memoir that renders the Asian American experience with a depth and a passion reminiscent of Richard Wright's Black Boy. It is a major contribution to the literature that defines what it means to be an American."
--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"A unique-and uniquely American-memoir, suffused with smarts, elegance, and warmth."
--Time

"More than a reminiscence of growing up Asian in America, it is an homage to Liu's Chineseness, and to America."
--Los Angeles Times

"Wonderfully spirited. . . . Remarkable in its adamant refusal to buy into the party line of identity politics . . . Liu is fair to all sides of any issues he discusses."
--The New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Eric Liu, twenty-nine, has been a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and a commentator for MSNBC. A regular contributor to Slate,
he has also written for The Washington
Post Magazine and USA Weekend. After founding The Next Progressive, an acclaimed journal of opinion, he edited the anthology Next:
Young American Writers on the New Generation. He is a graduate of Yale College and is now enrolled at Harvard Law School.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679448624
• ISBN 13: 9780679448624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 206