Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/166367to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Mighty and Irresistible Tide Author: Jia Lynn Yang Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins Release date: 05-19-20 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 45 ratings Genres: Emigration & Immigration Publisher's Summary: 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 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. In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists, and presidents from Truman through LBJ worked relentlessly to abolish the 1924 law.

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