Reseña del libro "A Life Worth Living (en Inglés)"
A Life Worth Living: In Pursuit of Fulfillment, Freedom and the American Dream tells the extraordinary story of Phil Friedman, who was born to Holocaust survivors in the Soviet Union just after World War II. A voracious reader and eloquent speaker, Phil was selected to be president of his high school of 1500 students, and he also found work at an electronics factory, making equipment for Soviet-supported foreign militaries. At this job, Phil found a mentor who was an entrepreneur within the Soviet system, and a man who found a way to get things done within that rigid system. Phil learned much from this man, and has always said that if he had been able to find his way to the United States, he would have done very well. But he did not. Phil, however, did land in the United States in 1976, with his wife Rose. Phil's parents and brother had preceded him to Brooklyn, and when the Soviet Union agreed to allow Jewish citizens to leave in exchange for grain, Phil and Rose left, too. They don't know how much grain they were traded for, but once they arrived in the United States, they began to study English and to find work. Phil eventually wound up working for Charles Greenberg and Sons, a firm that made children's clothing, and which wanted to broaden their horizons. Phil helped them do that by getting them to buy the first online computer system designed by IBM. They had to install the software for it, and they found it had bugs, so Phil fixed them, and Charles Greenberg and Sons were very happy with his work. But Phil knew that he could do more, and when he told Greenberg that he was going to start his own company, they offered to sell him theirs. As long as he kept its initials, and so CGS-Computer Generated Solutions - was born in 1984. And from that moment, Phil Friedman has never looked back, building and diversifying the company to become a global power. Phil also became a global power through his friendship with Tom Lantos, a Democratic Congressman from California, whom Phil met on a flight to Washington, D.C. Lantos was a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, and he and Phil bonded. When Lantos went on his foreign missions, he took Phil with him as his advisor, and so Phil traveled the world and met kings, presidents, prime ministers, ambassadors, and people from every walk of life. And from there he has established his own international footprint, as an educator and philanthropist. A Life Worth Living: In Pursuit of Fulfillment, Freedom and the American Dream reveals just how this Soviet immigrant became an American citizen and achieved more than he could have ever dreamt of achieving. His story gives hope to us all, for Phil made his dream come true and in so doing, he helped to make the world a better place.
