LEADER 06741cam a2200733 i 4500001 274979 005 20240621232955.0 008 190212s2019 nyuaf b 001 0 eng 010 2019006830 019 105674306810897408641101651751 020 9781476798035 |q(hardcover) 020 1476798036 |q(hardcover) 020 9781476798059 |q(paperback) 020 1476798052 |q(paperback) 020 |z9781476798080 |q(ebook) 020 |z1476798087 |q(ebook) 035 (OCoLC)on1086502278 035 274979 037 |bSimon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075 |nSAN 200-2442 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dDGU |dBUR |dYDX |dKYC |dBOP |dGXR |dBDX |dAZZPT |dTOH |dHZH |dMJ8 |dILC |dOCLCQ |dCLU |dNLM |dOCLCO |dOCLCA |dLHM 050 00 KF3832 |b.O37 2019 100 1 Okrent, Daniel, |d1948- |eauthor. 245 14 The guarded gate : |bbigotry, eugenics, and the law that kept two generations of Jews, Italians, and other European immigrants out of America / |cDaniel Okrent. 250 First Scribner hardcover edition. 264 1 New York : |bScribner, |c2019. 300 xvi, 478 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-451) and index. 505 00 |tA note from (and about) the author -- |gPrologue: |tEllis Island, 1925 -- |gPart I: |tEnough! Enough! We want no more!. |tFuture betterment of the human race ; Thrifty, capable Yankee blood ; The warfare of the cradle ; The kindled fire ; Short, sober, musical rapists ; To hell with Jews, Jesuits, and steamships! -- |gPart II: |tPerfect weapons of science. |tHeaven-sent Madison Grant ; |tA carnival of exclusion ; |tComing of the quota ; |tScience is our polestar ; |t6,346,856 inferior immigrants ; |tWithout foundation ; |tTrain of consequences -- |gEpilogue: |tLiberty Island, 1965. 520 Eugenicist arguments ranking the presumed genetic virtue of various ethnic groups helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the United States for more than forty years. By 1921 Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared 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. Okrent connects the work of the American eugenicists to Nazi racial policies and shows how their beliefs found fertile soil in the minds of citizens and leaders both here and abroad. -- adapted from jacket 520 "From Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Okrent, the definitive and timely account of a forgotten dark chapter of American history. The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who provided the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history and the men who turned their 'science' into politics. Brandished by the upper-class Bostonians and New Yorkers--many of them progressives--who led the anti-immigration movement, eugenicist arguments ranking the presumed genetic virtue of various ethnic groups helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the United States for more than forty years. In the early 1890s, Henry Cabot Lodge and other Boston Brahmins began a three-decade campaign to close the immigration door. 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 characteristic lively and authoritative style, Daniel Okrent brings to life the rich cast of characters: Theodore Roosevelt, Lodge's closest friend, who feared 'race suicide'; Charles Darwin's first cousin Francis Galton, the idiosyncratic polymath who gave life to eugenics; Madison Grant, the fabulously wealthy and profoundly bigoted founder of the Bronx Zoo; Grant's best friend, H. Fairfield Osborn, the aggressively anti-Semitic director of the American Museum of Natural History; Margaret Sanger, who saw eugenics as a sensible adjunct to her birth control campaign; Maxwell Perkins, the celebrated editor of Fitzgerald and Hemingway, who also published the leading proponents of 'scientific racism.' A work of history relevant for today, The Guarded Gate is an important, insightful tale that painstakingly connects the work of the American eugenicists to Nazi racial policies and shows how their beliefs found fertile soil in the minds of citizens and leaders both here and abroad."--Jacket. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Eugenics |xLaw and legislation |zUnited States |xHistory. 650 0 Sterilization (Birth control) |xLaw and legislation |zUnited States |xHistory. 610 10 United States. |tImmigration Act of 1924. 651 0 United States |xEmigration and immigration |xHistory. 650 0 Emigration and immigration law |zUnited States |xHistory. 650 0 Discrimination in medical care |xLaw and legislation |zUnited States |xHistory. 650 0 Human reproduction |xLaw and legislation |zUnited States |xHistory. 650 12 Eugenics |xlegislation & jurisprudence. |0(DNLM)D005053Q000331 650 22 Eugenics |xhistory. |0(DNLM)D005053Q000266 650 22 Emigration and Immigration |xlegislation & jurisprudence. |0(DNLM)D004641Q000331 650 22 Emigration and Immigration |xhistory. |0(DNLM)D004641Q000266 650 22 Sterilization, Reproductive |xlegislation & jurisprudence. |0(DNLM)D013245Q000331 650 22 History, 20th Century. |0(DNLM)D049673 651 2 United States. |0(DNLM)D014481 650 7 POLITICAL SCIENCE |xPublic Policy |xImmigration. |2bisacsh 650 7 SOCIAL SCIENCE |xEmigration & Immigration. |2bisacsh 650 7 SOCIAL SCIENCE |xEthnic Studies |xGeneral. |2bisacsh 650 7 Discrimination in medical care |xLaw and legislation. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00895107 650 7 Emigration and immigration law. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00908736 650 7 Eugenics |xLaw and legislation. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00916436 650 7 Human reproduction |xLaw and legislation. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00963231 650 7 Sterilization (Birth control) |xLaw and legislation. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01133212 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 NonFiction. |2lcgft 650 7 Sexual sterilization. |2homoit 852 0 |bstacks |hKF3832 |i.O37 2019