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Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editor. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times newspaper, inventing Rotisserie League Baseball, [1] and for writing several books (such as Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, which served as a major source for the 2011 Ken Burns ...
The website of author Daniel Okrent, featuring his new book about immigration and eugenics, THE GUARDED GATE.
Daniel Okrent is the prize-winning author of six books. Before The Guarded Gate, he published Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2011), which was cited by the American Historical Association as the year’s best book on American history.
In “The Guarded Gate” Daniel Okrent explores the 1920s nativist and eugenicist movements that led to the 1924 law practically shutting down immigration to America. By Linda Gordon
May 7, 2019 · Daniel Okrent traces the long history in the United States scientists using “intellectual justification” to promote incredibly harsh immigration laws. Much of this was accomplished by upper-class Bostonians and New Yorkers, who led a staunch anti-immigration eugenics movement.
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May 16, 2019 · In his new book, “ The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America ,” the journalist Daniel Okrent...
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Daniel Okrent is the author of six books, most recently The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. It is his third book since he concluded his term as the first Public Editor of the New York Times in 2005. His earlier works include Last Call: The ...
