A SINGLE YELLOW ROSE by ANNA TOTH KOCZAK : THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL

 

A Single Yellow Rose
A Memoir

by Anna Koczak

EXCERPTED FROM THE PUBLISHER:  

When young, ambitious Anna Toth is kicked out of school for opposing the fast-growing Communist movement in her country, Hungary, her future plans are extinguished. So she must take the job she least desires: become a maid.

When a new tenant, American diplomat Stephen Koczak, moves into the apartment she tends to, Anna chooses to work for him, despite opposition from her family, friends, and society in general and despite her growing admiration for him.

When a young, handsome, Hungarian secret police agent named Laszlo asks to date her, she knows she must agree, even though she knows it is an arranged relationship to be used to spy on her and her American boss.

With a forbidden admiration for her boss and a fake courtship with a member of the secret police, Anna's life is left tense and puzzling for months on end.

So when Koczak is forced to leave the country, Anna must decide her fate as well..."

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Just heard about this book and wanted all you Amerikai Magyroks to know about it!

THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE : PBS THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE :MAGYAR AMERICAN FILM REVIEW

I found this Golden Gate Bridge video more interesting than I thought it would be, because of the Trenton - New Jersey connection. You see a lot of Hungarian immigrants were wire workers in Trenton, and worked for the company that made the wire - those long thick cords of them - for suspension bridges like the Golden Gate Bridge, which opened for traffic in May of 1937. THE ROEBLING wire manufacturing company of Trenton - New Jersey, was essential to the building of the bridge. Joseph B. Stauss was the engineer whose life mission it was to build a suspension bridge over the dangerous churning waters of the San Francisco Bay, but he didn't last to project's end.




2004 WGBH Educational Foundation.
PBS VIDEO... THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE : A Wonder of the Modern World"

I also found the Golden Gate Bridge project interesting because the bridge was build during the Great Depression and kept a lot of men working though this was very dangerous work. Typically on every bridge project some workers fell top their death. For the Golden Gate lives were saved due to a safety net that was designed to catch the falls.

The net was an expensive but worthy innovation. It might have given the workers more confidence so they could work faster but then a heavy piece of equipment fell into the net which didn't hold and took workers with it.

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