Immigrant of the Day: Dinesh D’Souza (India)

Dinesh D’Souza (born April 25, 1961 in Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India) is an author and public speaker currently serving as the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. D’Souza is the author of numerous books and a conservative writer and speaker.

D’Souza was born in Bombay, India. He arrived in the United States in 1978, originally through a Rotary International program, attending high school in Patagonia, Arizona, and then Dartmouth College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in English in 1983.

D’Souza next moved to Washington, D.C., where he served for two years as an editor of Policy Review, a conservative journal.  In 1987 D’Souza left the magazine to serve as a policy advisor in Ronald Reagan’s White House until 1988. He then joined the American Enterprise Institute, before joining the Hoover Institution.

Books authored by Dinesh D’Souza include:

1984: Falwell, Before the Millennium: A Critical Biography, Regnery Publishing

1986: The Catholic Classics

1987: My Dear Alex: Letters From The KGB (with Gregory Fossedal)

1991: Illiberal Education

1995: The End of Racism

1997: Ronald Reagan: How An Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader

2000: The Virtue of Prosperity

2002: What’s So Great About America

2002: Letters to a Young Conservative

2007: The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11

2007: What’s So Great About Christianity

KJ