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10 de jun. de 2024 · Today, I want to call your attention to the World Socialist Web Site’s interview with Dan Okrent, author of The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America.
20 de jun. de 2024 · Historian and author, Daniel Okrent, was the guest on the Pizza Pod Party. He talks pizza and journalism and even breaks down what it’s like to film a Ken Burns documentary.
Hace 3 días · 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 Carnegie...
1 de jul. de 2024 · Take Daniel Okrent’s Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition as an example. The book came out in 2009 to all sorts of critical acclaim, spent months on the nonfiction best-seller lists, and became one of the primary sources for the Ken Burns documentary on Prohibition for PBS.
11 de jun. de 2024 · Temperance and Prohibition. The United States was the largest country ever to experiment with national Prohibition, so it should be no surprise that in the United States most of the books on the history of drink deal with temperance reform.
26 de jun. de 2024 · Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent's dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever.
Hace 4 días · Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent. 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.
