How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life edited by Tom Miller National Geographic Books $16.95 288 pages

In a 2005 essay in Foreign Policy magazine, Harvard's Samuel Huntington identified a cultural and linguistic shift that threatens unprecedented division in the US. By ignoring the growth of Latino immigration and the concomitant rise of native Spanish speakers, he argued, "Americans acquiesce to their eventual transformation into two peoples with two cultures (Anglo and Hispanic) and two languages (English and Spanish)".