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Item Information       Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content     More by this author     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Okrent, Daniel, 1948-       by title:      The guarded gate : b...       by call number:      344.743048 O41g     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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