Daniel Okrent
Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and
editor. He is best known for having served as the first
public editor of ''
The New York Times'' newspaper, inventing
Rotisserie League Baseball, and for writing several books (such as ''Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition'', which served as a major source for the 2011
Ken Burns/
Lynn Novick miniseries ''
Prohibition)''. In November 2011, ''Last Call'' won the Albert J. Beveridge prize, awarded by the
American Historical Association to the year's best book of American history. His most recent book, published May 2019, is ''The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America''.
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