A Nation of Immigrants Author:John F. Kennedy "This narrative of the struggles of successive waves of immigrants, of their inestimable gifts to the development of the nation, and of their repeated triumphs over prejudice and discrimination glows with color... With eloquence, sound historical knowledge, and a true comprehension of the requisites of American greatness, President Kennedy expou... more »nds the need for an enlargement of our narrow laws. His moving book expresses an ideal defined by Washington in the first years of the Republic: that America should always be 'a propitious asylum for the unfortunates of other countries.'" - Allan Nevins« less