Immigration Reform, Past and Present

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.0 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Jia Lynn Yang talks about “One Mighty and Irresistible Tide,” and Judith Newman talks about books that help simplify life.

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0:00.0	How did America's 20th Century struggle over immigration reform set the stage for today's
0:11.8	immigration debates?
0:13.4	Geel and Yang will join us to talk about her book, One Mighty at Irresistible Tide.
0:18.9	Is now the time to simplify your life?
0:21.2	Our help desk colonist Judith Newman will be here to talk about books that try to get
0:26.1	you down to the essentials.
0:28.3	Alexander Alter will have an update from the publishing world.
0:31.4	Plus, our critics will join us for the latest in literary criticism.
0:35.4	This is the Book Review Podcast for the New York Times.
0:38.3	It's May 21st.
0:39.3	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:43.7	Geel and Yang joins us now.
0:51.5	She is a deputy editor on the National Desk at the Times and the author of a new book
0:56.0	called One Mighty at Irresistible Tide, the epic struggle over American immigration,
1:02.3	1924 to 1965.
1:04.3	Geel and thanks so much for being here.
1:06.9	It's great to be here.
1:08.4	So your day job is as a deputy editor on the National Desk at the New York Times.
1:14.2	And I think you are the first deputy editor of the National Desk with the New York Times
1:17.4	to be on the podcast.
1:18.9	So I want to ask you a kind of two-part question.
1:21.4	Just first, what is your job normally like?
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