Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826): "A right which nature has given to all men" -- Lyman Beecher (1775-1863): The no-popery crusade -- John Joseph Hughes (1797-1864): Definitions of "assimilation" -- Denis Kearney (1847-1907): "The Chinese must go!" -- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): "Cast down your buckets where you are" -- Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914): How the other half lives -- Jane Addams (1860-1935): Settling in the American city -- Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924): Immigration restriction as national policy -- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919): Race suicide -- Joseph Petrosino (1860-1909): International criminal conspiracies -- Madison Grant (1865-1937): The passing of the great race -- A. Mitchell Palmer (1872-1936): Red scare -- Henry Ford (1863-1947): The protocols of the elders of Zion -- Laura Fermi (1907-1977): Illustrious immigrants -- Patrick Anthony McCarran (1876-1954): Cold War immigration -- Oscar Handlin (1915-): The uprooted and other images of immigration -- Edward M. Kennedy (1932- ): Immigration as a solution to other problems -- Cesar Chavez (1927-1993): Migrant farmworkers -- Alan K. Simpson (1931-): "There can be no perfect immigrant reform bill" -- John Tanton (1934-): Of grass and grassroots.