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214–15
lawyers’ charges against, 199, 201–2 McSweeney’s corruption and, 143–44 on prostitution, 283–84
put in charge of Ellis Island, 136, 230 replacement of, 167
resignation of, 234
stricter exclusionary laws and regulations sought by, 140, 150–51, 152–53, 161, 193–96, 237, 247, 249 strictness of, 149–50, 220–21, 224, 228, 236, 247
Turner on, 147
twenty-five-dollar rule of, 196–99, 201, 202–3, 204
Von Briesen Committee and, 159–61, 228
Williams, William (Declaration of Independence signer), 136
Williamson, John, 360
Willis, Henry Parker, 229
Wilson, William B., 317–18, 323, 326 Wilson, Woodrow, 175, 230–31, 232, 240, 297, 305, 307, 315, 328, 332 on “alien enemies,” 293–94
literacy test and, 307–8
Windom, William, 49–50
Winthrop, John, 95
Wise, Stephen, 232
Wister, Owen, 101, 157
Witzke, Lothar, 292
Wobblies, 311, 312–13, 314, 315, 316, 338
Wolf, Simon, 198, 201, 202, 211, 213–14
Wolf, Sophie, 410
Wolper, David, 393
Wolpert, Otto, 309
Woman’s Suffrage Party, 306
Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 60
Woodhull, Frank (Mary Johnson), 3–5, 402
Woods, Robert, 102
Woolfolk, Austin, 21
World War I, 10, 13, 123, 235, 239, 240, 262, 279, 286, 289–300, 306–10, 316, 319, 325, 327–28, 331, 334, 335, 336, 338
World War II, 14, 349, 351, 357, 397, 414
Japanese internment camps in, 292, 352
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 383
Wyman, Walter, 206
Yacoub, Meier Salamy, 211, 212 Yale University, 50, 136
Yiddish, 136
You, A. J., 119–20
Youth’s Companion, 396
Zangwill, Israel, 306
Zionism, 201
Zitello family, 238–41, 259
About the Author
VINCENT J. CANNATO teaches history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
PART II
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
PART III
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
PART IV
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
PART V
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher