America's Adopted Son
The remarkable story of
an orphaned immigrant boy
by Samuel Nakasian
ISBN: 1-880404-12-5
392 pp.
40 b&W photographs
$18.95
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America's Adopted Son
by Samuel Nakasian
"…late one spring night in 1915, the police pounded on the door, waking my father. When he let them in, they arrested him without explanation. That night he and one million other Armenian men were taken to the desert, away from populated areas, and murdered. I was still in my mother's womb." (p. 3)
This classic American immigrant tale traces Nakasian's odyssey-beginning with the abduction and murder of his father-and the tragic genocide of more than one million Armenians in Turkey. It follows the ocean journey to the United States, the succession of foster farm homes and a life of poverty in New York City during the Depression. Despite daunting adversity as a physically handicapped immigrant orphan, he graduated from New York University, Columbia University and Georgetown Law School.
After World War II, his career flourished. His expertise and tenacity brought him in contact with the greatest-and most controversial-business and political minds of this century, including Samuel Bronfman, founder of Seagrams, Nelson Bunker Hunt, member of the richest family in the world at that time; Richard Bissell, director of the C.I.A. during the Bay of Pigs invasion; Armand Hammer; Averill Harriman; Nelson Rockefeller; Warren Burger; Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford; the Shah and Mossadaq of Iran and Muammar Ghaddafi of Libya.
About the author
Sam Nakasian lives on Sunny Brae Farm in Greenwood , Virginia. In view of the Blue Ridge Mountains he tends his cattle and 200 acres, and keeps abreast of the current changes in the Middle East where, for many years, he played the role of negotiator for large American corporations.
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