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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America by Daniel Okrent

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America runs 14 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Daniel Okrent (about 9.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

14listening hrs
Social Sciencestore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 14 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America at common listening paces
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2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×10 days

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What our data says

  • At 14 hours, it runs longer than 91% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America is an audiobook by Daniel Okrent: a 14-hour unabridged recording, read by Daniel Okrent, released May 7, 2019, on the Social Science and The Americas shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
14 hrs
Narrated by
Daniel Okrent
Released
May 7, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Social Science, The Americas, World
ISBN
9781508279914

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America as an audiobook?

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America runs 14 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9.4 hours.

Is The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America?

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America is narrated by Daniel Okrent.

Is The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9.4 hours, saving 4.7 hours.