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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.

A nation of immigrants / John F. Kennedy ; introduction by Edward M. Kennedy ; foreword by Abraham H. Foxman.

Revised and enlarged edition.

New York : Harper Perennial, 2008.

©2008

xvi, 85 pages. 32 pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Chapter 1 Anation of Nations 1 -- Chapter 2 Why They Came 4 -- Chapter 3 Waves of Immigration-The Pre-Revolutionary Forces 10 -- Chapter 4 Waves of Immigration-The Post-Revolutionary Forces 17 -- Chapter 5 The Immigrant Contribution 64 -- Chapter 6 Immigration Policy 69 -- Chapter 7 Where We Stand 77 -- Appendix A The United States of America-A Nation of Immigrants 84 -- Appendix B Chronology of immigration 88 -- Appendix B-1 Major immigration policy developments since 1963 95 -- Appendix D Text of President John F. Kennedy's Proposals to Liberalize Immigration Statutes (July 23, 1963) 108 -- Appendix E Selected Comments on President Kennedy's Message 114.

Immigrants -- United States.

United States -- Emigration and immigration.

Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009, writer of introduction.

Foxman, Abraham H., writer of foreward.

"First Harper Perennial edition published 2008."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 68-75).

A nation of Nations -- Why They Came -- Waves of Immigration : the Pre-Revolutionary forces -- Waves of Immigration : the Post-Revolutionary forces The Immigrant Contribution -- Immigration Policy -- Where We Stand -- The United States of America : a Nation of Immigrants -- Chronology of immigration -- Major immigration policy developments since 1963 -- Suggested reading -- Text of President John F. Kennedy's Proposals to Liberalize Immigration Statutes (July 23, 1963) -- Selected Comments on President Kennedy's Message.

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