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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

by Daniel Okrent

A forgotten, dark chapter of American history with implications for the current day, The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who argued that certain nationalities were inherently inferior, providing the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history. Brandished by the upper class Bostonians and New Yorkers—many of

Publisher

Scribner

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

496

ISBN

9781476798059