American passage

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Location	Collection	Call #
Shaler North Hills Library	Audiovisual	CD 325.73 C [B-O-CD]
Location	Shaler North Hills Library
Collection	Audiovisual
Call Number	CD 325.73 C [B-O-CD]

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Booklist Review: "While telling a history of the iconic reception facility for immigrants, Cannato emphasizes Ellis Island as the focal point of the administration of American immigration law. The political forces influencing that law supply his narrative's momentum, as he depicts the activities and arguments of immigration advocates, immigration opponents, and, more practically, officials who made on-the-spot decisions. After recounting Congress' creation in 1891 of a federal immigration bureaucracy and its infrastructure on Ellis Island, Cannato expounds on commissioners of the place, their ties to politicians, and their viewpoints on enforcing changes in law that Congress regularly made, culminating in nationality quotas in 1924 that wound down Ellis Island's immigration operations. (It served as a detention center until closing in 1954.) Including many cases of immigrants' lives affected by the Ellis Island processes, Cannato aims to attract those whose ancestors went through Ellis Island, and his carefulness to be historian and not judge of the segment of the traditional American debate about immigration that Ellis Island represents will enlighten present participants in its politics.--Taylor, Gilbert Copyright 2009 Booklist"
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Additional Information

Subjects	Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History. Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Immigrants -- United States -- History. Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) -- History. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History. New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History. Audiobooks.
Publisher	Prince Frederick, MD :Recorded Books,2009
Edition	Unabridged.
Other Titles	American passage :
Contributors	Hogan, Jonathan. Recorded Books, Inc.
Participants/Performers	Narrated by Jonathan Hogan.
Language	English
Notes	Unabridged. Compact disc.
Description	17 audio discs (20 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN	9781440727412 1440727414
Other	Classic View