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''. Provided by Wikipedia
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Baseball anecdotes / by Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
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The way we were : New England then, New England now / by Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
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Last call : the rise and fall of Prohibition / by Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
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Nine innings / by Okrent, Daniel, 1948-
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