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Guarding the Golden Door American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882

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ISBN-10: 0809053446

ISBN-13: 9780809053445

Edition: 2005

Authors: Roger Daniels

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"Arguably the most useful for general readers. Clearly written, reasonably lean and on the whole, balanced in its assessments, it is an excellent primer." --Los Angeles Times The federal government's efforts to pick and choose among the multitude of immigrants seeking to enter the United States began with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Conceived in ignorance and falsely presented to the public, it had undreamt of consequences, and this pattern has been rarely deviated from since. As renowned historian Roger Daniels shows in this brilliant new work, America's inconsistent, often illogical, and always cumbersome immigration policy has profoundly affected our recent past. Immigration…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 1/12/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.38" wide x 8.26" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Historian Roger Daniels has written numerous books, mostly on immigration history and Japanese-American internment during World War II. He was past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the Immigration History Society. He served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians and on the planning committee for the Immigration Museum on Ellis Island. He has also worked with the National Park Service on historic sites and as a historical consultant for many television programs. As a Fulbright Professor he taught at five universities in Europe and two universities in Canada. His last position was at…