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Bookmark or Share- Daniel Okrent The Guarded GateDaniel Okrent is the prize-winning author of six books. Before The Guarded Gate, he published Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2011), which was cited by the American Historical Association as the year’s best book on American history.
- Daniel Okrent - WikipediaDaniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editor. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times newspaper, inventing Rotisserie League Baseball , [ 1 ] and for writing several books (such as Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition , which served as a major source for the 2011 Ken ...
- Daniel Okrent - Brennan Center for JusticeDaniel Okrent is the author of six books, most recently The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. It is his third book since he concluded his term as the first Public Editor of the New York Times in 2005.
- Daniel Okrent | Shorenstein CenterDaniel Okrent completed his term as the first public editor of the New York Times in May 2005. He was for many years an editorial executive at Time Inc., serving variously as managing editor of Life, corporate editor of new media, and corporate editor-at-large.
- Daniel OkrentDaniel Okrent’s first book since the prize-winning Last Call tells the chilling story of how anti-immigration activists of the early twentieth century — most of them well-born, many of them progressives — used the bogus science of eugenics to justify closing the immigration door in 1924.
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