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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 ...
Daniel Okrent’s first book since the prize-winning Last Call tells the chilling story of how anti-immigration activists of the early twentieth century — most of them well-born, many of them progressives — used the bogus science of eugenics to justify closing the immigration door in 1924.
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 · 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.
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 · Daniel Okrent served as the first public editor of The New York Times. His book Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history.
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...
