Rating: 
Summary: Clear and to the point
Review: This book is one of the most compelling reads of non-fiction I have ever come across. Without a doubt, this is one of few books I found of real use in college, and I continue to read and reflect upon it to this day. In fact, I would call this book essential for any social studies curriculum.Arthur Schlesinger takes the issues of a new PC nation and puts them into real perspective. He is both pro-culture and pro-heritage, but he stands against the idea that cultural identity means a seperation of the American People. Taking on a myriad of topics, Schlesinger explains with great simplicity, straight-forwardness, and honesty how multi-culturalism can be taken too far, taken to absurd conclusions. Essentially, Schlesinger is letting us know that not everything is best when it is presented through the eyes of multi-culturalism. I read the book in a single sitting. Once I started to read, I was drawn in more and more. Even if you don't agree with his premise, Schlesinger writes in such a way that there is no ambiguity to what he is saying. Knowing Schlesinger's politics for some may make this all the more shocking, but I have to ask those who oppose the message of this book whether they are upset that he is saying these things in general, or if they are upset because a "liberal" is saying these things. In my opinion this book is of critical importance to understand the second half of the 20th century in America.
Rating: 
Summary: No, thank you
Review: This book... where to even start. I think it would be very easy to accept what this book says if you had never really studied American history from a non-white perspective.
He never explores the creation of a white America. He does not acknowledge the violence of assimilation. He almost completely disregards non-European immigrations. He never questions the myths of white America.
Reading this book, I was convinced that he was a conservative.
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