{"product_id":"one-mighty-and-irresistible-tide","title":"ONE MIGHTY AND IRRESISTIBLE TIDE","description":"One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020\nOne of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2020\nA Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction in 2020\nLonglisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal\n\nA sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today’s roiling debates.\nThe 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 stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from southern and eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia.\nIn a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, from the indefatigable congressman Emanuel Celler and senator Herbert Lehman to the bull-headed Nevada senator Pat McCarran, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists, and presidents from Truman through LBJ worked relentlessly to abolish the 1924 law. Through a world war, a refugee crisis after the Holocaust, and a McCarthyist fever, a coalition of lawmakers and activists descended from Jewish, Irish, and Japanese immigrants fought to establish a new principle of equality in the American immigration system. Their crowning achievement, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, proved to be one of the most transformative laws in the country’s history, opening the door to nonwhite migration at levels never seen before―and changing America in ways that those who debated it could hardly have imagined.\nFramed movingly by her own family’s story of immigration to America, Yang’s One Mighty and Irresistible Tide is a deeply researched and illuminating work of history, one that shows how Americans have strived and struggled to live up to the ideal of a home for the \"huddled masses,\" as promised in Emma Lazarus’s famous poem.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0393635848\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 4EKGRJ009PEJ_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Yang, Jia Lynn\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41516213239866,"sku":"4EKGRJ009PEJ_ns","price":8.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0393635848-0.jpg?v=1783722769","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/one-mighty-and-irresistible-tide","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}