The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again

By Michael Barone

Sometime in this century, we are told, the United States will become a majority-minority” country—that is, a nation where whites make up less than 50 percent of the population. Many believe this signals a fundamental change in America. Does it? Is the Melting Pot a thing of the past?

Absolutely not, says political historian Michael Barone. In The New Americans, Barone reminds us that the United States has never been a homogeneous, monoethnic nation. He reveals how the new Americans of today can be interwoven into the fabric of American life just as immigrants have been interwoven throughout U.S. 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 can work as well today as it always has.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Release date: Feb 6, 2012
• ISBN: 9781596987272

Michael Barone

Michael Barone is a a journalist and former political consultant, senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and resident fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a founder and longtime principal co-author of The Almanac of American Politics and is the author of six other books on American history and politics and its British heritage. He has worked for the Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report and has written for many other publications. He grew up in Detroit and Birmingham, Michigan, and is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, and was an editor of the Harvard Crimson and the Yale Law Journal.