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100 1  Yang, Jia Lynn,|eauthor. 
245 10 One mighty and irresistible tide :|bthe epic struggle over
       American immigration, 1924-1965 /|cJia Lynn Yang. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c[2020] 
300    324 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-307) and 
       index. 
505 00 |t"God's crucible" --|tSlamming the door --|tA "tragic 
       bottleneck" --|t"A land of great responsibilities" --|tA 
       son of Nevada --|tInternal security --|tAn Irish Brahmin -
       -|tA bold proposal --|tA martyr's cause. 
520    "A sweeping history of the legislative battle to reform 
       American immigration laws that set the stage for the 
       immigration debates roiling America today. The idea of the
       United States as a nation of immigrants is today so 
       pervasive, and seems so foundational, that it can be hard 
       to believe Americans ever thought otherwise. But a 1924 
       law passed by Congress instituted a system of ethnic 
       quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale 
       immigration for decades, sharply curtailing immigration 
       from southern and eastern Europe and outright banning 
       people from nearly all of Asia. In a compelling narrative 
       with a fascinating cast of characters, Jia Lynn Yang 
       recounts how a small number of lawmakers, activists, and 
       presidents worked relentlessly for the next forty years to
       abolish the 1924 law and its quotas. Their efforts 
       established the new mythology of the United States as "a 
       nation of immigrants" that is so familiar to all of us 
       now. Through a world war, a global refugee crisis, and a 
       McCarthyist fever that swept the country, these Americans 
       never stopped trying to restore the United States to a 
       country that lived up to its vision as a home for "the 
       huddled masses" from Emma Lazarus's famous poem. When the 
       1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, one of the most 
       transformative laws in the country's history, ended the 
       country's system of racial preferences among immigrants, 
       it opened the door to Asian, Latin American, African, and 
       Middle Eastern migration at levels never seen before-
       paving the way for America's modern immigration trends in 
       ways those who debated it could hardly have imagined"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Emigration and immigration law|zUnited States|xHistory
       |y20th century. 
650  0 Immigrants|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
651  0 United States|xEmigration and immigration|xHistory|y20th 
       century.