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Title: The New Americans by Michael Barone ISBN: 0-89526-202-9 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 29 May, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.22 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant
Comment: Every American who wants to understand the hope for our future and the destructive attitudes and policies of our elites toward integration and assimilation needs to read this book. Everyone who wants to understand the difference between Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda and America should read this book.
This is a breathtaking tour of how American weaves a pattern of achievement and opportunity and how various ethnic groups have responded and are responding to it. The heart of Barone's thesis is that America has successfully integrated and assimilated people of different backgrounds, and that there are patterns to that assimilation that are working for 21st century new Americans just as they worked for the 19th and 20th century American immigrants. Barone asserts that the modern elite's attitude toward group identity, opposition to middle class society, and assertion of racial grievances actually retards the process of assimilation. He regards most bilingual education as a political spoils system for bilingual teachers, which actually hurts the very people it is designed to help. He notes that patterns of intermarriage and upward mobility in income and education are creating assimilative patterns even as university elites seek to divide young Americans by race and teach them to focus on historic grievances rather than future opportunities.
It is impossible in a short review to do justice to the brilliance of Barone's writing, the depth of his research, or the clarity of his examples. His parallels between Irish and African Americans, Italian and Latino immigrants and Jews and Asians are profound and extraordinarily thought provoking.
Rating: 5
Summary: The more things change the more they stay the same
Comment: Barone thesis that the "new" groups (blacks, latinos, and asians) pursuit of the american dream runs parallel to earlier groups; (Irish & blacks, Italians & latinos, Jews & asians) is a well argued case. His arguement that blacks (or african americans if you perfer) belong in the "new" group becasue it was only in the 50's and 60' that the death of "Jim Crow" gave them the full rights of Americans everywhere is well made. There are several revelations here for modern americans who decended from these groups (not the least that Italians were not considered "white" and that all three groups were considered different races.) and these revelations should be noted and remembered by those who achieved the American dream thanks to the efforts of their grandfathers and grandmothers. It is an optomistic book about an optomistic future for this country and it argues that the growing pains of assemilation which every past ethnic group went through is the same pain that we their decendants don't recognize in others. He believes it will pass and in the end the genius of the concept of America will prevail for the benefit of all. I like the arguement and despite the time, happily subscribe to it. READ IT
Rating: 4
Summary: America for all...........
Comment: There are mixed book reviews and I am aware of this. What I would like to write has to do with an important point Mr. Barone makes: America is an important country and we should acknowledge and respect this as Americans.
Yes, I am fully aware of the history of past discrimination, racism, inequality, and how these unfortunate factors have negatively impacted people. But, in order to move forward in transforming this nation to a greater level, we need to stop beliving in "victimology"; in believing that one is a victim. And this is not so simple and I also know that people are going to disagree and yes, disagreement is also important.
What I would like to say, respectfullly, is that we live in a great nation. We should move forward, as citizens of this great nation, strengthen our country, and believe in it.
There are many persons of different ethnic background, religious affiilations, race, language, social economic status, and belief system who have made much progress in America. There are others who can also make progress in our great country. And, yes, it may at times feel like climbing a mountain or for that matter moving one, but we live in a great country. And we have made much progress; and we have more work to do. We should love this country, strengthen our nation, and move forward in progress.
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Title: Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future by Michael Barone ISBN: 1400053064 Publisher: Crown Forum Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Almanac of American Politics, 2004: The Senators, the Representatives and the Governors : Their Records and Election Results, Their States and Districts by Michael Barone, Richard E. Cohen ISBN: 0892341068 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan by Michael Barone ISBN: 0029018617 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: American Immigration by Maldwyn Allen Jones ISBN: 0226406334 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: In Denial: Historians, Communism, & Espionage by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr ISBN: 1893554724 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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