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CCNY Made: Profiles in Grit is an anthology by Dr. Ronnyjane Goldsmith. It features biographies of twenty-eight actual and four fictional alumni who attended the City College of New York in their rise to professional success and eminence in the fields of art and design, business and education, government and international affairs, literature and screenwriting, music and the performing arts, and science and technology. The anthology is dedicated to the author’s father, a CCNY alumnus who immigrated to the United States as a child, attended CCNY and law school at night so he could work in the daytime, and became a lawyer and FBI Special Agent after serving as an aide to General Patton in WWII. An appendix and bibliography provide additional content and references.
If you aren’t sure what the word “grit” means, you won’t be in any doubt after reading CCNY Made: Profiles in Grit by Ronnyjane Goldsmith. I was utterly inspired by the unbelievable courage and resolve described on page after page of this impressive and well-written collection of biographical profiles. Being unfamiliar with the history and mission of CCNY, I was surprised to find so many notables whose names or achievements were familiar but about whose lives I was ignorant. These are people who rose above the social, economic, and educational challenges and obstacles they faced and persevered to live the American Dream and impact our world in so many positive ways. If I could make CCNY Made: Profiles in Grit required reading in every American high school, I would.
