Click here to return to book details SOON TO BE RELEASED Enclosed, please find a galley copy of: The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again By Michael Barone June 2001 Contact: Gwen Nappi (202) 216-0601, ext. 487 CAN THE MELTING POT STILL WORK IN AMERICA? AUTHOR MICHAEL BARONE SAYS YES… IF WE HEED THE LESSONS OF THE PAST America is a nation of growing racial and ethnic diversity, and many wonder whether we can assimilate the waves of immigrants who have come (and continue to come) to our shores. Is the Melting Pot a thing of the past? Absolutely not, says political historian Michael Barone. In his thought-provoking new book, The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again, Barone reminds us that the United States has never been a homogeneous nation. He reveals how the new Americans can be interwoven into the fabric of American life just as immigrants have been interwoven throughout U.S. history. We can learn from America’s success in assimilating earlier immigrants, as well as from the mistakes made along the way. In fact, Barone demonstrates the startling and important similarities between today’s new Americans and nineteenth-century immigrant groups-how in many ways blacks resemble Irish, Latinos resemble Italians, and Asians resemble Jews. Barone shows that the biggest mistake we can make is to act as if we are at a wholly new place in history. If we heed the lessons of America’s past-and avoid misguided policies and programs that hinder rather than help assimilation-the Melting Pot will work as well as it always has. Michael Barone, a leading political historian and commentator, is a senior writer at U.S. News & World Report and a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group. For the past thirty years he has served as coauthor of the biannual Almanac of American Politics. “Michael Barone, who knows more about everything in American politics than anyone else knows about anything in American politics, has written a guide for the perplexed concerning immigration. Read it and you will not be perplexed, you will be informed and reassured about America’s resilience.”       -George F. Will “Demography is destiny. In the hands of a master it can also be revelation. And there is none such as Michael Barone. Even as multiethnic nations around the world grow ever more divided, Barone shows that the United States, whilst growing ever more diverse, will be ever more stable. And successful.”       -Daniel Patrick Moynihan Price: $21.95 - Click here to order: Click here to return to book details