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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924 – 1965

by Jia Lynn Yang

A sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today’s roiling debates. The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades,

Publisher

Norton & Company Limited, W. W.

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

336

ISBN

9780393635843