Books, Arts & Manners: Disunited We Stand

The Disuniting of America, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Norton, 160 pp., $14.95)

WHEN Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s long essay on the evils of multiculturalism first appeared last year, it caused a sensation, even though, since it was a Whittle Book, hardly anyone read it. Here, the news stories implied, was the Last Liberal, sounding like an editorial from national review, circa 1957. Now that Norton has rescued The Disuniting of America from limbo, it is possible to read what he has actually said, and not said.

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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The Disuniting of America, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Norton, 160 pp., $14.95)

WHEN Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s long essay on the evils of multiculturalism first appeared last year, it caused a sensation, even though, since it was a Whittle Book, hardly anyone read it. Here, the news stories implied, was the Last Liberal, sounding like an editorial from national review, circa 1957. Now that Norton has rescued The Disuniting of America from limbo, it is possible to read what he has actually said, and not said.