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The Golden Door: The United States from 1865 to 1918
The Golden Door The United States from 1865 to 1918 Author:Isaac Asimov "Give me your tired, your poor, — Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, — The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, — Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: — I lift my lamp beside the golden door." — These familiar words, written by Emma Lazarus in 1883 to honor the Statue of Liberty, expressed an American attitude of th... more »e time. The golden door -- the harbor of New York City -- was open to thousands of European immigrants, immigrants who were more than welcome to contribute their efforts to the rapidly developing country. In his fourth book on the history of the United States, Isaac Asimov takes up this period of dynamic growth and explores the fifty years stretching from the end of the civil War to the end of world war I, when the United States had become the strongest nation in the world. As in his other books, he demonstrates his genius for making history exciting and human and for presenting the interweaving threads of history in a clear and understandable pattern.« less