A Nation Of Immigrants
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Throughout his presidency, John F. Kennedy was passionate about the issue of immigration reform. He believed that America is a nation of people who value both tradition and the exploration of new frontiers, people who deserve the freedom to build better lives for themselves in their adopted homeland. This modern edition of his posthumously published, timeless work—offers the late president’s inspiring suggestions for immigration policy and presents a chronology of the main events in the history of immigration in America.
As continued debates on immigration engulf the nation, this paean to the importance of immigrants to our nation’s prominence and success is as timely as ever.-Print Ed.
“In this book, President Kennedy tells us what immigrants have done for America, and what America has done for its immigrants. It is one of the dramatic success stories of world history....It can stand as a testament to a cause President Kennedy cherished, and which we should carry on.”—ROBERT F. KENNEDY
President John F. Kennedy
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Reviews for A Nation Of Immigrants
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A potted history of little depth but with relevant information for anyone interested in the 2016, sound bite, election coverage that our estimable mainstream media thinks is all we are entitled to receive through them on this subject. More reading is indicated and there is a useful bibliography included. The photographs included are telling as are the quotes Mr. Kennedy included, this 1834 one in particular: "If you wish to see our whole family living in ..... a country where freedom of speech obtains, where no spies are eavesdropping, where no simpletons criticize your every word and seek to detect therein a venom that might endanger the life of the state, the church and the home, then come here." This jumped out at me because, although the times are different, I believe I detect simpletons in our midst.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This seems to be an abridged version. There's another version on Scribd twice as long and much cleaner.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I bought this book at Half Off Books on Camelback road as a result of the recent immigration law in Arizona (SB 1070). If immigration reform being in the headlines again and me being on a recent Kennedy kick I thought it only natural to pick up this title. I found JFK's insight into this subject very informative and extremely relevant. President Kennedy pretty much sums up my ideas on Americas history and future with regards to immigration. The president points out how this country was built by immigrants and immigrants were fundamental forces in every important historical event to happen since the birth of this nation. Kennedy wrote this book as a way to spread the word about his immigration policies and I am thankful that he did because I found it to be very interesting and useful.
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A Nation Of Immigrants - President John F. Kennedy
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A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS
BY
JOHN F. KENNEDY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS 5
PICTURE CREDITS 6
CHAPTER 1—A NATION OF NATIONS 7
CHAPTER 2—WHY THEY CAME 9
CHAPTER 3—WAVES OF IMMIGRATION—THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FORCES 13
CHAPTER 4—WAVES OF IMMIGRATION—THE POST-REVOLUTIONARY FORCES 76
THE IRISH 76
THE GERMANS 77
THE SCANDINAVIANS 80
OTHER IMMIGRANT GROUPS 82
CHAPTER—THE IMMIGRANT CONTRIBUTION 87
CHAPTER 6—IMMIGRATION POLICY 91
CHAPTER 7—WHERE WE STAND 97
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 101
PICTURE CREDITS
Research and editing by Sam Holmes and Charles Reynolds. (1) From Nova Britannia by Robert Johnson (London, 1609), courtesy of the Rare Book Division, New York Public Library. (2) From Ausfuehrliche Historie der Emigranten oder vertriebenen Lutheraner aus dem Ertz-Bissthum Salzburg (Leipzig, 1732-34), courtesy of the Rare Book Division, New York Public Library. (3) From Your America Day-by-Day by Clark Kinnaird; copyright 1950, King Features Syndicate, Inc. (4) From White Servitude in Colonial South Carolina by Warren B. Smith, courtesy of University of South Carolina Press. (5) and (6) Courtesy of the New-York Historical Society, New York City. (7) From To the Golden Door by George W. Potter, courtesy of Little, Brown and Company. (8) The Bettmann Archive. (9) Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (10) Culver Pictures, Inc. (11) The Bettmann Archive. (12) Harper’s Weekly, June 6, 1863. (13) Courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society. (14) Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. (15) Courtesy of the Weyerhaeuser Company. (16) Brown Brothers. (17) Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York. (18) Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (19) Brown Brothers. (20) and (21) Lewis W. Hine, courtesy of George Eastman House. (22) Culver Pictures, Inc. (23) Courtesy Library of Congress. (24) Lewis W. Hine, courtesy of George Eastman House. (25) and (26) Brown Brothers. (27) Lewis W. Hine, courtesy of George Eastman House. (28) Brown Brothers. (29), (30), (31) and (32) Courtesy of U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. (33) Courtesy of Polish Museum of America, Chicago. (34) Arnold Genthe, courtesy of the California Historical Society. (35) Courtesy of U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. (36) Brown Brothers. (37) Lewis W. Hine, courtesy of George Eastman House. (38) From the Jacob A. Riis Collection, courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York. (39) Courtesy of the New York Public Library. (40) and (41) United Press International. (42) Wide World Photos, Inc. (43) From The Herblock Book, Beacon Press, 1952, courtesy of Herbert Block. (44) Ernst Haas, Magnum Photos. (45) From The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum Photos, published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. (46) United Press International. Prints for (5), (18) and (23) from John Houseman’s film Voyage to America, courtesy of United States Commission, New York World’s Fair.
CHAPTER 1—A NATION OF NATIONS
On May 11, 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, disembarked in the bustling harbor of New York City. He had crossed the ocean to try to understand the implications for European civilization of the new experiment in democracy on the far side of the Atlantic. In the next nine months, Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont traveled the length and breadth of the eastern half of the continent—from Boston to Green Bay and from New Orleans to Quebec—in search of the essence of American life.
Tocqueville was fascinated by what he saw. He marveled at the energy of the people who were building the new nation. He admired many of the new political institutions and ideals. And he was impressed most of all by the spirit of equality that pervaded the life and customs of the people. Though he had reservations about some of the expressions of this spirit, he could discern its workings in every aspect of American society—in politics, business, personal relations, culture, thought. This commitment to equality was in striking contrast to the class-ridden society of Europe. Yet Tocqueville believed the democratic revolution
to be irresistible.
Balanced between the past and the future,
as he wrote of himself, "with no natural instinctive attraction