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The Guarded Gate

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Author : Daniel Okrent
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 2020-05-19

The Guarded Gate written by Daniel Okrent and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with History categories.

NAMED ONE OF THE “100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR” BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW From the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call—this “rigorously historical” (The Washington Post) and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America keep out “inferiors” in the 1920s is “a sobering, valuable contribution to discussions about immigration” (Booklist). A forgotten, dark chapter of American history with implications for the current day, The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who argued that certain nationalities were inherently inferior, providing the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history. Brandished by the upper class Bostonians and New Yorkers—many of them progressives—who led the anti-immigration movement, the eugenic arguments helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the US for more than forty years. Over five years in the writing, The Guarded Gate tells the complete story from its beginning in 1895, when Henry Cabot Lodge and other Boston Brahmins launched their anti-immigrant campaign. In 1921, Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that “biological laws” had proven the inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans; the restrictive law was enacted three years later. In his trademark lively and authoritative style, Okrent brings to life the rich cast of characters from this time, including Lodge’s closest friend, Theodore Roosevelt; Charles Darwin’s first cousin, Francis Galton, the idiosyncratic polymath who gave life to eugenics; the fabulously wealthy and profoundly bigoted Madison Grant, founder of the Bronx Zoo, and his best friend, H. Fairfield Osborn, director of the American Museum of Natural History; Margaret Sanger, who saw eugenics as a sensible adjunct to her birth control campaign; and Maxwell Perkins, the celebrated editor of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. A work of history relevant for today, The Guarded Gate is “a masterful, sobering, thoughtful, and necessary book” that painstakingly connects the American eugenicists to the rise of Nazism, and shows how their beliefs found fertile soil in the minds of citizens and leaders both here and abroad.

The Guarded Gates

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Author : Katrina Britt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

The Guarded Gates written by Katrina Britt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Spain categories.

Who S Guarding The Gates

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Author : Nancy Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2012-10-31

Who S Guarding The Gates written by Nancy Robinson and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-31 with Religion categories.

From the cradle to the pulpit, precious things have been taken from God's people. Somewhere, someone left a gate open; somewhere, someone failed to guard a gate and the enemy seized the opportunity to break in and run off with the good stuff. There is a growing, holy roar in the kingdom of God and amongst His people. They are awake and want their things back! God has provided a divine strategy to regain possession of the gates. That strategy is found in our radical obedience to Him. The battle begins with the reconstruction of individual gates first. Who's Guarding the Gates? is the engaging question that every person must ask and be prepared to answer.Nancy Robinson serves as an Elder at The Word Church in Cleveland, OH, which is under the leadership of Dr. R.A. Vernon and First Lady Victory Vernon. She conducts training sessions and facilitates classes for altar workers, intercessors, and congregants that focus on spiritual warfare and enriching their personal walk with God. Robinson graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York with a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design and Illustration. She is certified through the Caribbean Ministerial Academy of Tuscaloosa, Alabama in Studies in the Life of Christ, and by AACC (the American Academy of Christian Counselors) for studies in Christian Counseling. Nancy has also received an Associate's Degree equivalent in Black Biblical Studies from the McCreary Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Who's Guarding the Gates? is her first literary work. The author is a devoted mother of two children, Ariel and Akira, and doting grandmother of two beautiful granddaughters, Aiyana and Tiasha. www.whosguardingthegates.com

Devil At The Gates

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Author : Lauren Smith
language : en
Publisher: Lauren Smith
Release Date : 2020-02-24

Devil At The Gates written by Lauren Smith and has been published by Lauren Smith this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-24 with Fiction categories.

One dark night she meets her fate in the arms of shadowy duke... Fleeing a cruel stepfather, Harriet Russell escapes into a stormy night, relying only on the mercy of servants to help her. Her coach overturns, leaving her and her driver injured. Seeking help from whoever lives nearby, she stumbles between a set of gates guarded by fierce demonic gargoyle statues. As she enters the shadowy, haunted lands belonging to the Duke of Frostmore, she’s afraid of meeting with him, but she must in order to help her driver. Harriet comes face to face with the duke, she understands why he’s called the Devil of Dover, with his fierce sensual magnetism and his frightening temper. He’s beautiful, tempting and dangerous... He made a mistake once by falling in love and death followed... After the tragic deaths of his wife and brother, Redmond Barrington, the Duke of Frostmore, wants to be left alone and has barred all strangers from his lands. When an injured young woman begs for help, he finds himself reconsidering his vow of solitude as Christmas draws near. Harriet is as unwilling to trust in love as he is. What begins with a terrifying tension between them soon becomes something else entirely, a sensual passion that frightens him with its intensity. The more time he spends with her, the more Redmond wonders if fate might give him a second chance to chase away the ghosts of his past.

Guarding The Gates

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Author : Michael C. LeMay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

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"This is the first history of American immigration policy written in the post-9/11 environment to focus specifically on the role of national security considerations in determining that policy."--Résumé de l'éditeur

The Guarded Gate And Other Sermons

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Author : James Wright (of Forest Gate.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902

The Guarded Gate And Other Sermons written by James Wright (of Forest Gate.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with categories.

The Key To The Gate

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Author : EksAyn Aaron Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-06-13

The Key To The Gate written by EksAyn Aaron Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-13 with Industrial marketing categories.

Anyone can approach an organization; not everyone can get in. The first step in business-to-business sales is getting in the door. It doesn't matter if you have the greatest product or the most dynamic presentation if you can't get in front of the decision maker. That decision maker is often highly guarded by a savvy gatekeeper who screens out sales calls--leaving even talented, experienced salespeople frustrated by their inability to get access to the right people. The experience of selling to a business isn't limited to salespeople. At some point, many people find the need to approach an organization, whether it is selling an idea or service, for fundraising needs, or even just selling personal credentials in an interview or audition. Success in these "sales" approaches comes through impressing key decision makers. Unlike many sales books and trainings that focus on what to do once you have an appointment to sell, The Key to the Gate addresses how to get the initial appointment and offers proven methods for getting through to the decision makers. Influence isn't always where you expect, and The Key to the Gate presents specific principles and techniques that can work wonders in getting you the appointment.

The Hand Of Chaos

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Author : Margaret Weis
language : en
Publisher: Spectra
Release Date : 2009-05-20

The Hand Of Chaos written by Margaret Weis and has been published by Spectra this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-20 with Fiction categories.

Chaos is everywhere as the Lord of the Nexus orders his servant Haplo and the human child known as Bane to further their master's work on Arianus, the realm of air. But their one time companion Alfred has been cast into the deadly Labyrinth. And somehow the assassin Hugh the Hand has been resurrected to complete his dark mission. More important, the evil force that Haplo and Alfred discovered on Arianus has escaped. As Haplo's doubts about his master grow deeper, he must decide whether to obey the Lord of the Nexus or betray the powerful Patryn...and endeavor to bring peace to the universe.

Last Call

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Author : Daniel Okrent
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-05-11

Last Call written by Daniel Okrent and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-11 with History categories.

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing. Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever. Writing with both wit and historical acuity, Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces: the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign; the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities; the anti-German sentiment stoked by World War I; and a variety of other unlikely factors, ranging from the rise of the automobile to the advent of the income tax. Through it all, Americans kept drinking, going to remarkably creative lengths to smuggle, sell, conceal, and convivially (and sometimes fatally) imbibe their favorite intoxicants. Last Call is peopled with vivid characters of an astonishing variety: Susan B. Anthony and Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan and bootlegger Sam Bronfman, Pierre S. du Pont and H. L. Mencken, Meyer Lansky and the incredible—if long-forgotten—federal official Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who throughout the twenties was the most powerful woman in the country. (Perhaps most surprising of all is Okrent’s account of Joseph P. Kennedy’s legendary, and long-misunderstood, role in the liquor business.) It’s a book rich with stories from nearly all parts of the country. Okrent’s narrative runs through smoky Manhattan speakeasies, where relations between the sexes were changed forever; California vineyards busily producing “sacramental” wine; New England fishing communities that gave up fishing for the more lucrative rum-running business; and in Washington, the halls of Congress itself, where politicians who had voted for Prohibition drank openly and without apology. Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent’s rank as a major American writer.

Immigration At The Golden Gate

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Author : Robert Eric Barde
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2008-03-30

Immigration At The Golden Gate written by Robert Eric Barde and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-30 with History categories.

Presents the history of San Francisco's Angel Island Immigration Station that operated between 1910 and 1940. Argues that Asian immigrants, rather than being welcomed, were denied liberties and even entrance to the United States.