| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780060742737 | | Publisher: Harper | | Publish Date: 6/9/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 208355726 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.25H x 6.25L x 1.75T | | Pages: 320 |
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| | | Cannato masterfully illuminates the story of Ellis Island from the days when it hosted pirate hangings to the turn of the 20th century when massive migrations sparked fierce debates. b&w photo insert.
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Vincent J. Cannato's meticulously researched account of the history of Ellis Island deals with the specific operation of the island from 1892 to 1924, and addresses the place's iconic significance as both a gateway to freedom, and a barrier to countless immigrants deemed undesirable or unfit--complex moral issues that are as heated and important a century later.
| Praise| "Cannato does a masterful job of weaving together a slew of...singular immigration stories with the larger issues that surrounded the newcomers. He gives us the politics, the health scares and epidemics, the crowding, the corruption and the public policy." - Abby Wisse Schachter 06/07/2009 "[A] finely-honed account that encompasses both the human story of the immigrant experience, often a sad one, and the political and bureaucratic responses...." - Michael Kenney 07/04/2009 |
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