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Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
Subjects
Emigration and immigration law -- United States -- History.
Eugenics -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Sterilization (Birth control) -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Discrimination in medical care -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Human reproduction -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
Emigration and immigration law -- United States -- History.
Eugenics -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Sterilization (Birth control) -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Discrimination in medical care -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Human reproduction -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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The
guarded
gate
:
bigotry
,
eugenics
, and the
law
that
kept
two
generations
of
Jews
,
Italians
, and
other
European
immigrants
out
of
America
/ Daniel Okrent.
by
Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
Scribner, 2019.
Call #:
344.743048 O41g
Subjects
Emigration and immigration
law
-- United States -- History.
Eugenics
--
Law
and legislation -- United States -- History.
Sterilization (Birth control) --
Law
and legislation -- United States -- History.
Discrimination in medical care --
Law
and legislation -- United States -- History.
Human reproduction --
Law
and legislation -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9781476798035 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Description:
xvi, 478 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill., portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"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 40 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 characteristic style, both lively and authoritative, 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 an important, insightful tale 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."--From publisher.
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