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393 The Statue of Liberty: NYT, November 4, 1985.
393 In November 1985: Roberta Gratz and Eric Fettmann, “The Selling of Miss Liberty,” Nation, November 9, 1985. For other articles by Gratz and Fettmann on the topic, see “Mr. Iacocca Meets the Press,” Nation, March 8, 1986; “Post-Iacocca” Nation, April 19, 1986; and “Whitewashing the Statue of Liberty,” Nation, June 7, 1986. F. Ross Holland dismisses the complaints of Gratz and Fettmann as “scurrilous” and “liberally sprinkled with untruths, half-truths, misinformation, and distorted facts.” Idealists, Scoundrels, and the Lady, 180–181.
394 For some, it was all: Jacob Weisberg, “Gross National Production,” New Republic, June 23, 1986.
394 If the public: Lee Iacocca with William Novak, Iacocca: An Autobiography (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), 339–441.
394 His father, Nicola: Iacocca with Novak, Iacocca, 5; Peter Wyden, The Unknown Iacocca (New York: William Morrow, 1987), 260.
395 “Hard work”: Iacocca with Novak, Iacocca, 339.
395 To others, that vision: Holland, Idealists, Scoundrels, and the Lady, 158–159; Roberta Gratz and Eric Fettmann, “The Battle for Ellis Island,” Nation, November 30, 1985.
395 A historian made: Lynn Johnson, “Ellis Island: Historic Preservation from the Supply Side,” Radical History Review, September 1984.
396 How should the: NYT, January 14, 21, 1984.
396 The former inspection: For more on the evolution of the historical memory of Plymouth Rock, see John Seelye, Memory’s Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998).
396 This process began: Jacob A. Riis, “In the Gateway of Nations,” Century Magazine, March 1903; “The New Plymouth Rock,” Youth’s Companion, December 14, 1905.
396 In 1914, a writer: Mary Antin, They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1914), 98. 396 That an immigrant: Werner Sollors, “National Identity and Ethnic Diversity: ‘Of Plymouth Rock and Jamestown and Ellis Island’ or Ethnic Literature and Some Redefinitions of ‘America,’ ” in Genevieve Fabre and Robert O’Meally, eds., History and Memory in African-American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 103–105; Agnes Repplier, “The Modest Immigrant,” Atlantic Monthly, September 1915.
397 Other native-born Americans: Thomas Darlington, “The Medic-Economic Aspect of the Immigration Problem,” North American Review, December 21, 1906. 397 In the late 1930s: Sollors, “National Identity and Ethnic Diversity,” 108–109; Dan Shiffman, Rooting Multiculturalism: The Work of Louis Adamic; Louis Adamic, From Many Lands (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939), 296–299. 397 In deeply nostalgic: Leo Rosten, “Not So Long Ago, There Was a Magic Island,” Look, December 24, 1968; Edward M. Kennedy, “Ellis Island,” Esquire, April 1967; Thomas M. Pitkin, Keepers of the Gate: A History of Ellis Island (New York: New York University Press, 1975), 177.
398 In the late 1970s: “Ellis Island Remembered,” September 23, 1978, NYPL. 398 Riding this wave: F. Ross Holland, Idealists, Scoundrels, and the Lady: An Insider’s View of the Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island Project (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993), 5–6; NYT, July 25, 1981.
399 “The Battle for”: Michael Barone, “The Battle for Ellis Island,” Washington Post, August 14, 1984, and Matthew Frye Jacobson, Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 320–322.
399 In 1988: NYT, September 4, 1988; Michael Dukakis, “A New Era of Greatness for America”: Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, July 21, 1988; and Jacobson, Roots Too, 327–331.
399 Ferraro and Dukakis: Meg Greenfield, “The Immigrant Mystique,” Newsweek, August 8, 1988.
400 At the other side: NYT, January 14, 1993, August 11, 2000.
401 What name does: NYT, September 21, 1990.
401 The most famous: The Sean Ferguson story also appears in Alan M. Kraut, The Huddled