The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again

by Michael Barone

Many Americans feel swamped by immigrants with alien cultures, languages, and customs apparently flooding into our country.

Genres: Politics, The United States Of America, History, Cultural, Nonfiction

340 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Michael Barone, a political analyst and journalist, studies politics, American government, and campaigns and elections. The principal coauthor of the annual Almanac of American Politics (National Journal Group), he has written many books on American politics and history. Barone is also a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner. Barone has also written for many major market publications, including The Economist, The New York Times, The Detroit Press, American Enterprise and The Daily Telegraph of London.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1966 and Yale Law School in 1969.

Reviews

[Jamie Wellik · Rating 5 out of 5]

A thought-provoking historical look at the path immigrants traditionally experience as they arrive in the United States and gain economic and political clout over successive generations. Barone’s posits the theory that African -Americans are on a similar path, delayed for 100 years until the Civil Rights legislation of the mid-1960s opened the way for political office and clout.