From the Bookshelf of Around the World in 80 Books…

[close] In 1954, as a 29-year-old grad student, Dick Jorgensen was selected to be one of four “ambassador” teachers in a first-ever exchange program with Japan universities. He spent the next two years teaching at the University of Hiroshima, founded in the wake of the atomic bombing of the city in 1945. Thus began an incredible journey for "A Kid from the Midwest."