Guarding the Golden Door / American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882, AND A SECOND BOOK ON THE TOPIC, With These Hands / The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today / Stories from the People Who Harvest Our Food and Those Who Shape Their Lives

Daniels, Roger, AND A SECOND BOOK, by Daniel Rothenberg

ISBN 10: 0809053446 / ISBN 13: 9780809053445

Published by Hill and Wang / A Division of Farrar Straus and Giroux / Harcourt Brace, New York, 2003

We list the ISBN of "Guarding the Golden Door," a "First paperback edition, 2005." Number line complete 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 -- the first printing thus. The author -- since retired from the University of Cincinnati and identified as a "consultant to PBS" -- is an historian, offering little in the way of economic analysis of the issue at hand, and seems to be opposed to most efforts to limit immigration or to encourage illegal aliens to depart, referring to such approaches (including California's Proposition 187) as "unconstitutional," "nativism" and "vigilantism" and to media publicity concerning documented crimes committed by illegals as "anti-immigration propaganda." He calls any suggestion of "controlling our borders . . . irresponsible." In fact, the term "illegal alien" is absent from the index here, and Eisenhower's hugely effective "Operation Wetback" is skipped over in the author's chronology, receiving no mention that we can find. Needless to say, the Los Angeles Times Book Review praised this book as "balanced in its assessments"! 328 pp. Reduced from $22. OUR SECOND OFFERING, "With These Hands" is a 1998 first edition hardcover in jacket from Harcourt Brace, letter line complete E D C B A, ISBN 0151002053. Author Rothenberg taught in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Irvine and was previously a paralegal providing "federally funded legal services" for farm workers. Based on more than 250 interviews. 334 pp. including index. Braceros immigrant agricultural labor, reduced from $20. The pair of books on related topics -- one hardcover in jacket, one a trade paperback -- combined into a lot to consolidate shipping charge, the pair now marked down from $20. Seller Inventory # 005111

Synopsis:

As renowned historian Roger Daniels shows in this brilliant new work, America's inconsistent, often illogical, and always cumbersome immigration policy has profoundly affected our recent past.

The federal government's efforts to pick and choose among the multitude of immigrants seeking to enter the United States began with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Conceived in ignorance and falsely presented to the public, it had undreamt of consequences, and this pattern has been rarely deviated from since.

Immigration policy in Daniels' skilled hands shows Americans at their best and worst, from the nativist violence that forced Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan to the generous refugee policies adopted after World War Two and throughout the Cold War. And in a conclusion drawn from today's headlines, Daniels makes clear how far ignorance, partisan politics, and unintended consequences have overtaken immigration policy during the current administration's War on Terror.

Irreverent, deeply informed, and authoritative, Guarding the Golden Door presents an unforgettable interpretation of modern American history.

About the Author:

Roger Daniels, author of Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II, is a renowned expert on immigration, consultant to PBS and the Immigration Museum on Ellis Island, and expert witness on Japanese-American internment.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Guarding the Golden Door / American ...
Publisher: Hill and Wang / A Division of Farrar Straus and Giroux / Harcourt Brace, New York
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket