From the Killing Fields to the White House: The American Dream in First Person

Captured and forced to perform slave labor by Khmer Rouge officials, Sichan Siv feared that he would be worked to death or killed. It was only a matter of time. But he never abandoned hope or his improbable dream of freedom – a dream that liberated him, astonishingly, from his brutal captors and ultimately led him to the United States, where he later became a senior White House aide and ambassador to the United Nations.