The guarded gate : bigotry, eugenics, and the law that kept two generations of Jews, Italians, and other European immigrants out of America /

By 1921, the wide acceptance of eugenic doctrine enabled Vice President Calvin Coolidge to declare that 'biological laws' had proven the inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans; the restrictive law that remained U.S. policy until 1965 was enacted three years later. In his characteris...

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Main Author: Okrent, Daniel, 1948- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2019
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition
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