Gateway to Opportunity: How How One Public School Helped Shape an Entire Nation

Gateway to Opportunity: How One Public School Helped Shape an Entire Nation is like a Who's Who in American history. Its chapters deliver lessons and anecdotes from the storied history of the Boston Latin School--the first American public school in existence for over 385 years--told from the vantage point of one of its graduates.

James V. Cammisa, Jr. is a highly recognized business journalist who published a widely-read executive newsletter as well as his first book, The American Dream: How the Free-Market Economy Is Eroding It and What We Can Do to Resolve It (ISBN 1463526113). In his next book, he explores the foundation on which the dream was built, education--and delivers a compelling historic narrative through his eyes as a student attending the most historic school in America--the Boston Latin School. James received an undergraduate degree in American history from Harvard College and an M.B.A. in economics from the Columbia Business School.Jeffrey Cammisa is a creative director in the healthcare marketing industry. Jeffrey graduated with a Master's degree in philosophy from Boston College.