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The Rise of the Unmeltable EthnicsBy Michael Novak

Macmillan, 321 pp., $7.95 This is not an easy book to review or characterize, and any brief attempt will not do it justice. Michael Novak, a liberal or radical Catholic writer, has written eight books and two novels. This is his eleventh. I have read in some of the earlier books, and I gather both from that sampling and from the emotional tone of this one, that this is the first time he writes, not as a liberal or radical Catholic alone, but as a “white ethnic.”

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The Rise of the Unmeltable EthnicsBy Michael Novak

Macmillan, 321 pp., $7.95 This is not an easy book to review or characterize, and any brief attempt will not do it justice. Michael Novak, a liberal or radical Catholic writer, has written eight books and two novels. This is his eleventh. I have read in some of the earlier books, and I gather both from that sampling and from the emotional tone of this one, that this is the first time he writes, not as a liberal or radical Catholic alone, but as a “white ethnic.”