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Jia Lynn Yang with Michael Luo

For more than a century, the United States has wrestled with the question of immigration, adjusting its attitude toward newcomers in response to global affairs and an ever-evolving sense of who can call themselves an American. Framed movingly by her own family’s story of immigration to America, New York Times deputy national editor Jia Lynn Yang’s One Mighty and Irresistible Tide is a deeply researched and illuminating work of history, one that shows how Americans have strived and struggled to live up to the ideal of a home for the “huddled masses,” as promised in Emma Lazarus’s famous poem. Through her lucid account of the origin and impact of US immigration policies, Yang contextualizes the contemporary conversation about immigration and offers fresh insights into questions of race, opportunity, freedom, and justice that feel more relevant now than ever before. Michael Luo, award-winning journalist and editor of NewYorker.com, joins Yang in conversation for this virtual book talk.

Purchase the book here to support the author and the bookstore!
https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/book/9780393635843

Use coupon code TIDE to take 15% off your purchase of One Might and Irresistible Tide before June 19!











When: Fri., Jun. 12, 2020 at 7:30 pm

For more than a century, the United States has wrestled with the question of immigration, adjusting its attitude toward newcomers in response to global affairs and an ever-evolving sense of who can call themselves an American. Framed movingly by her own family’s story of immigration to America, New York Times deputy national editor Jia Lynn Yang’s One Mighty and Irresistible Tide is a deeply researched and illuminating work of history, one that shows how Americans have strived and struggled to live up to the ideal of a home for the “huddled masses,” as promised in Emma Lazarus’s famous poem. Through her lucid account of the origin and impact of US immigration policies, Yang contextualizes the contemporary conversation about immigration and offers fresh insights into questions of race, opportunity, freedom, and justice that feel more relevant now than ever before. Michael Luo, award-winning journalist and editor of NewYorker.com, joins Yang in conversation for this virtual book talk.

Purchase the book here to support the author and the bookstore!
https://www.greenlightbookstore.com/book/9780393635843

Use coupon code TIDE to take 15% off your purchase of One Might and Irresistible Tide before June 19!

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