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America still beckons.

The American Enterprise

| October 01, 2005 | Kotkin, Joel | COPYRIGHT 2005 The American Enterprise, a national magazine of politics, business and culture (TEAmag.com). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The American dream may be a musty old relic in the minds of some American elites, but for Annique Lambe--who arrived in the U.S. 12 years ago from Ireland--it is alive and well. Now a schoolteacher in Manhattan, she marvels at the energy and opportunity that she and other friends who are also recent immigrants from Europe have found on these shores.

"New York is a huge place where something is always happening," she says in a soft Irish lilt. "Now I am a part of it, living among the big towers and the skyline. It seems miraculous to me."

From the seventeenth century on, waves of immigrants from the European continent played a primary role in forming ...

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