Word: venders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name from what the streets of America were reportedly paved with and left his native Russian village against the will of his own father. Sam Gold is traced from the pre-World War I ghetto in New York to Cleveland; from water boy to cigar maker to pushcart vender to greengrocer to successful real estate speculator. A prodigious worker, he conquers the New World through the marketplace and adjusts to the traumas of his family's assimilation. He emerges tough, pragmatic, and optimistic beyond the comprehension of his sons...