| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Immigrants, Progressives, and Exclusion Politics: The Dillingham Commission, 1900–1927. By Robert F. Zeidel. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. x, 198 pp. $42.00, ISBN 0-87580-323-7.)
Robert F. Zeidel's monograph usefully surveys the story of the Dillingham Commission and sets it in the broader context of the Progressive movement and the evolution of American immigration policy. Zeidel argues that the commission is best understood via a "rationalist" examination of economic considerations, rather than a "romantic" focus on cultural imperatives such as nativism (p. 5).	1
Zeidel capably details the diverse motives of President Theodore Roosevelt, members of Congress, and lobby organizations in establishing the commission in 1907. He demonstrates as well that commissioners in favor of restriction and those opposed generally shed overt biases in gathering evidence about immigrants and making policy recommendations. And he shows how the commission reflected the broad ideals and practices associated with Progressivism—social science methodologies, ideals of objectivity, and economic analysis of social problems. But the book has a number of weaknesses.	. . .

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