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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

By Jia Lynn Yang
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By Jia Lynn Yang
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One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020

One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2020

A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction in 2020

Longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal


A sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today's roiling debates.

The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so st...

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