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Written with a grace that any novelist would envy, Okrentâ€s book tells the story of the
immigration battles of the early twentieth century in a way thatâ€s both fascinating on its own
terms, but also, alas, all-too-relevant to todayâ€s news.― —Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, author
of American Heiress “Our two oceans have protected and insulated us, but they have also
helped to incubate less attractive features. Daniel Okrent artfully and faithfully records our
(earlier) dismal record on immigration and how those home-grown racist and xenophobic policies
metastasized into exports with horrific worldwide consequences. This is a masterful, sobering,
thoughtful, and necessary book.― —Ken Burns “The Guarded Gate delivers a timely
history of anti-immigrant fever centered in the elite eugenics movement a century ago. In this
masterful narrative, sprinkled with wit, Daniel Okrent shows how the lesser angels of our heritage
‘depopulated Ellis Island as if by epidemic,†leading to cycles of disgrace and reform.― —
Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Parting the Waters: America in the King
Years, 1954-63 “Daniel Okrent is a gifted social historian. In this powerful, fast-paced, and
highly relevant chronicle of bad science and fearful prejudice, Okrent helps us understand how
and why our country lost its way about a century ago. Read it so that history does not find new
ways of repeating itself.― —Evan Thomas, author of The War Lovers“If you think we have
reached peak stupidity — that Americaâ€s per capita quantity has never been higher — there
is solace, of sorts, in Daniel Okrentâ€s guided tour through the immigration debate that was
heading toward a nasty legislative conclusion a century ago.― —George F. Will, The
Washington Post“Engrossing... Itâ€s a grim and sordid story, but Okrent is aÂ
companionable, witty, and judicious guide.― —Commentary Magazine “A vivid new
book…jam-packed with appalling examples― of anti-immigrant passions “primarily targeted
at Catholics and Jews…― —The New York Times Book Review Read more Daniel OkrentÂ
was the first public editor of The New York Times, editor-at-large of Time, Inc., and managing
editor of Life magazine. He worked in book p