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The bully pulpit and the melting pot : American presidents and the immigrant, 1897-1933 /

Vought, Hans P.

The bully pulpit and the melting pot : American presidents and the immigrant, 1897-1933 / Hans P. Vought. - 1st ed. - Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2004. - xvii, 261 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-250) and index.

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.

0865548870 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2004020511


Presidents--History.--United States


United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History.

JV6483 / .V68 2004

325.73/09/041

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