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Jul 16, 2024 · Daniel Okrent writes in his book The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America, the trustees of the...
Jul 4, 2024 · Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent – California Review of Books. Scribner. Essay by Brian Tanguay. When the conservative supermajority of the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June 2022, it overturned a half century of settled law.
Jul 19, 2024 · Daniel Okrent is the prize-winning author of six books including, most recently,The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other...
1 day ago · Alluding to the research of Daniel Okrent and 2012 Joseph Kennedy biographer David Nasaw, Logevall agreed that there was little substantive evidence in the widely held belief that Joseph Kennedy partnered with mob figures to make a part of his fortune in bootlegging during Prohibition in the 1920s. As Logevall noted, Joseph Kennedy did expand ...
Jul 11, 2024 · Here was my go-grab-’em lede of ’96: “Every one of them has taken an animal,” says Nelson Bryant serenely. Taken means killed. Bryant refers to a half-dozen guns, modern and antique, hung upon a rude wall in a clean, well-lighted cottage in the Martha's Vineyard village of West Tisbury.
Jul 10, 2024 · The list below begins with my 20 favorite nonfiction books about history (excluding biographies). Following several lists defined (often arbitrarily) by category that include more than 100 good nonfiction books about history. (If I review a book, it almost always means I read and enjoyed the book.
Jul 16, 2024 · I co-own a fantasy site and, as of a couple months ago, did not know much about the pre-Internet fantasy sports industry aside from the origin story about Daniel Okrent and friends starting a league and naming it after the NYC restaurant La Rotisserie Française that they often frequented.
