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portada The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the law That Kept two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants out of Ameri: Bigotry,E And Other European Immigrants out of America (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2020
Language
English
Pages
496
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.1 x 14.0 x 2.8 cm
Weight
0.36 kg.
ISBN13
9781476798059

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the law That Kept two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants out of Ameri: Bigotry,E And Other European Immigrants out of America (in English)

Daniel Okrent (Author) · Scribner Book Company · Paperback

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the law That Kept two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants out of Ameri: Bigotry,E And Other European Immigrants out of America (in English) - Okrent, Daniel

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Synopsis "The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the law That Kept two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants out of Ameri: Bigotry,E And Other European Immigrants out of America (in English)"

NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW From the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call--this "rigorously historical" (The Washington Post) and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America keep out "inferiors" in the 1920s is "a sobering, valuable contribution to discussions about immigration" (Booklist). 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 them progressives--who led the anti-immigration movement, the eugenic arguments helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the US for more than forty years. Over five years in the writing, The Guarded Gate tells the complete story from its beginning in 1895, when Henry Cabot Lodge and other Boston Brahmins launched their anti-immigrant campaign. In 1921, Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that "biological laws" had proven the inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans; the restrictive law was enacted three years later. In his trademark lively and authoritative style, Okrent brings to life the rich cast of characters from this time, including Lodge's closest friend, Theodore Roosevelt; Charles Darwin's first cousin, Francis Galton, the idiosyncratic polymath who gave life to eugenics; the fabulously wealthy and profoundly bigoted Madison Grant, founder of the Bronx Zoo, and his best friend, H. Fairfield Osborn, director of the American Museum of Natural History; Margaret Sanger, who saw eugenics as a sensible adjunct to her birth control campaign; and Maxwell Perkins, the celebrated editor of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. A work of history relevant for today, The Guarded Gate is "a masterful, sobering, thoughtful, and necessary book" that painstakingly connects the American eugenicists to the rise of Nazism, and shows how their beliefs found fertile soil in the minds of citizens and leaders both here and abroad.

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