A Nation of Immigrants
- ISBN-10
- 0061311189
- ISBN-13
- 9780061311185
- Series
- A Nation of Immigrants
- Pages
- 111
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1964
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Author
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Description
Tells the story of the struggles of successive waves of immigrants who came to America and includes the President's plea for a complete revision of our immigration law. The late President expounds the need for an enlargement of our narrow immigration laws. His book expresses an ideal defined by Washington in the first years of the Republic: that America should always be a "propitious asylum for the unfortunates of other countries."
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