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Bookmark or Share- Eugenics, Anti-Immigration Laws Of The Past Still Resonate Today ... - NPRDaniel Okrent, author of The Guarded Gate, draws a parallel between the eugenics movement, which helped shape U.S. immigration in the early 20th century, and President Trump's hard-line stance...
- 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.
- The Last Time a Wall Went Up to Keep Out ImmigrantsIn “The Guarded Gate” Daniel Okrent explores the 1920s nativist and eugenicist movements that led to the 1924 law practically shutting down immigration to America.
- 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 ...
- A Journalist on How Anti-Immigrant Fervor Built in the Early Twentieth ...In his new book, “ The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America,” the journalist Daniel...
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