Books, Arts & Manners: The Melting Pot Revisited

The Unmaking of Americans: How Multiculturalism Has Undermined America’s Assimilation Ethic, by John J. Miller (Free Press, 320 pp., $25)

JOHN J. Miller, NATIONAL REVIEW’s national political reporter, has long been a combatant in the conservative civil wars over immigration. As a former chief lieutenant to Linda Chavez and as an advocate of high levels of immigration, Miller has crossed swords with such NR stalwarts as Peter Brimelow and John O’Sullivan. However, in The Unmaking of Americans, Miller places more or less on hold the arguments over how many (and what types of) immigrants we should admit and concentrates on the issue of how best to assimilate the immigrants already here.

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The Unmaking of Americans: How Multiculturalism Has Undermined America’s Assimilation Ethic, by John J. Miller (Free Press, 320 pp., $25)

JOHN J. Miller, NATIONAL REVIEW’s national political reporter, has long been a combatant in the conservative civil wars over immigration. As a former chief lieutenant to Linda Chavez and as an advocate of high levels of immigration, Miller has crossed swords with such NR stalwarts as Peter Brimelow and John O’Sullivan. However, in The Unmaking of Americans, Miller places more or less on hold the arguments over how many (and what types of) immigrants we should admit and concentrates on the issue of how best to assimilate the immigrants already here.