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Daniel Okrent. 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 ...
Barnes & Noble. 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.
18 dic 2018 · Nonfiction. The Last Time a Wall Went Up to Keep Out Immigrants. In “The Guarded Gate” Daniel Okrent explores the 1920s nativist and eugenicist movements that led to the 1924 law practically...
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.
10 mag 2010 · Okrent explains how both the suffrage and anti-immigration movements helped in the shaping and passage of the 18th Amendment and how Prohibition served as a stand-in for several other political...
16 mag 2019 · A Journalist on How Anti-Immigrant Fervor Built in the Early Twentieth Century. By Isaac Chotiner. May 16, 2019. “One hundred years ago,” Daniel Okrent says, “the invocation of science was the...
