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Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editor. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times newspaper, inventing Rotisserie League Baseball , [1] and for writing several books (such as Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition , which served as a major source for the 2011 ...
The website of author Daniel Okrent, featuring his new book about immigration and eugenics, THE GUARDED GATE.
Daniel Okrent is the prize-winning author of six books. Before The Guarded Gate, he published Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (2011), which was cited by the American Historical Association as the year’s best book on American history.
May 10, 2010 · Daniel Okrent served as the first public editor of The New York Times. His book Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history.
In “The Guarded Gate” Daniel Okrent explores the 1920s nativist and eugenicist movements that led to the 1924 law practically shutting down immigration to America.
Daniel Okrent's 40-year career has encompassed nearly every form of mass media. In book publishing, he was an editor at Knopf, Viking, and Harcourt. In magazines, he founded the award-winning New England Monthly and was chief editor of the monthly Life.
May 7, 2019 · Daniel Okrent's The Guarded Gate is a fluid and dismaying history of the turn-of-the-century eugenics and anti-immigration movements (and how seamlessly they converged), aided and abetted by an academic establishment that provided both with a veneer of intellectual respectability.
