America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

The definitive history of American xenophobia

"A sweeping record of xenophobia in the U.S., highlighting the different ways minority groups have been humiliated, discriminated against and even deported."—Time

The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational hostility toward immigrants has always been a defining feature of our nation. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed Germans for their “strange ...