Review

The Unmaking of Americans

How Multiculturalism Has Undermined the Assimilation Ethic

by John I. Miller

For centuries America has grown by encouraging foreign-born men and women to make the arduous journey to our shores, then inducting them into American culture. The process of creat- ing new Americans, not in name only but in spirit, is known as Americanization. The past two decades, however, have seen a war on that process, waged by the multiculturalist left. This book is an eloquent expose of that war and a battle-cry for a return to Americanization.

The greatest strength of The Unmaking of Americans is its consistent rejection of the false alternative between conservatives, who oppose immigration in fear that it will destroy America's unity, and multiculturalists, who encourage immigration in hope that it will. Miller shows that both camps share the premise that culture is a matter of genes, not ideas.

Read this book if you want to know how to fight this war on Americanization.

(293 pages)

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