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Book SynopsisA sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today’s roiling debates.
Trade Review"While ‘we tend to describe immigrants’ stories as feats of will and strokes of destiny,’ Yang reminds us, ‘it is not destiny that brings a family here but politics.’ This is a message worth noting as we approach November.
" -- David Nasaw - The New York Times Book Review
"Anyone who doesn’t understand that we are a nation of immigrants should be given a copy of Yang’s powerful and cogent look at immigrant strictures put in place in 1924 that were revoked by the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act." -- Bethanne Patrick - The Washington Post
"An effort to understand precisely what kind of nation of immigrants we are and how we arrived at this moment in our history... Admirably thorough." -- Philip Terzian - The Wall Street Journal
"A masterly study of political struggle... Yang has written a captivating account, full of personality and drama—and significance... worth reading to the last page." -- David M. Shribman - The Boston Globe
"Yang sketches lively portraits of the famous and obscure players behind the legislative fights... [Her] voyage across early-20th-century U.S. immigration debates makes palpable how much diplomacy and perseverance are required to win legislative change." -- Laura Wides-Muñoz - The Washington Post
