Through New York's Golden Door: An American Journey - Travel Memoir & Immigration Story for History Lovers and Adventure Seekers | Perfect for Book Clubs and Cultural Enthusiasts" （注：根据SEO优化规范，增加了关键词如"Travel Memoir"、"Immigration Story"、"History Lovers"等，并补充了使用场景如"Book Clubs"和"Cultural Enthusiasts"。）

Claude Shostal was part of one of the few families who successfully made a hazardous escape from Nazi Europe in 1941. Even though they arrived in America penniless and in debt, his parents were able to create a good life that allowed their son to live out the American Dream. He has lived a rich life, marked by far more excitement and fulfillment than despair or disappointment. How did a sickly infant smuggled through France during the darkest days of World War II become a “Rockefeller guy,” grow into something approaching an elder statesman in New York’s civic community, and along the way amass a respectable portfolio of adventure travel? In Claude Shostal’s words: "Of one thing I am quite certain: my story could not have happened anywhere else."