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Author Vought, Hans P.

Title The bully pulpit and the melting pot : American presidents and the immigrant, 1897-1933 / Hans P. Vought.

Imprint Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  325.7309041 V942b 2004    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvii, 261 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-250) and index.
Contents Setting the parameters of citizenship -- Theodore Roosevelt and "immigration of the right kind" -- William Howard Taft and the Dillingham Commission -- Woodrow Wilson and hyphenated Americans -- The melting pot at its boiling point -- Warren G. Harding and Americanization revised -- Calvin Coolidge and the prosperous melting pot -- Herbert Hoover and the end of asylum -- The legacy of the progressive melting pot.
Subject United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History.
Presidents -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0865548870 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780865548879 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No. 9780865548879
NLGGC 267697856
YDXCP 2118006

 
    
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