Translated from Spanish by editor.

1. The first automobile ride and other events -- 2. Postcards from my town: on my fondness for roosters and memories of Mrs. Cruz -- 3. Four ministers and a recreation park -- 4. The road to San Juan -- 5. In pursuit of new horizons -- 6. How I arrived in New York -- 7. How I spent two years as a student in New York -- 8. In Syracuse -- 9. Thorns along the path -- 10. First steps in New York -- 11. Melrose house -- 12. Melrose house - and the impact of the Great Migration -- 13. How I came to direct the employment and Migration Office -- 14. The employment and Migration Office -- 15. Fruits of betrayal: on the constant persecution by the commissioner and his associates -- 16. Epilogue -- Appendix A: Sources and documents -- Appendix B: Letter from Manuel Cabranes to José A. Cabranes (1961) -- Appendix C: Spanish original -- Appendix D: Carta de Manuel Cabranes para José A. Cabranes (1961).

"This project-the memoir of my late father, Manuel Cabranes began in 1983 at the behest of his granddaughters (my daughters, Jennifer Ann and Amy Alexandra Cabranes). They wished to know more about Manuel Cabranes's life and that he, then aged 80, pass along his wisdom and his memories. My father died in 1984, less than a year after he embarked on this project. He had completed a first draft, in Spanish, which he did not intend to be the finished product. Alas, the first draft became the final draft." -- Foreword by José A. Cabranes.