MICHAEL BARONE is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and author of the New York Times bestseller Our First Revolution and Hard America, Soft America. A resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, he is also a Fox News Channel contributor and coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. His column is published Wednesdays and Sundays. He blogs regularly for the Examiner's Beltway Confidential site.
"Lively, entertaining, and informative." -Alvin Felzenberg, "The
Weekly Standard"
Reading Michael Barone on politics and demography is like sampling
a tasting menu prepared by a fine chef. His latest offering,
"Shaping Our Nation," does not disappoint The book is a delightful
read, full of color and stories of people and just enough data to
inform and satisfy...It is a treat for the reader, and will trick
you into knowing more about modern politics than you might
otherwise have wanted to discover. "-Washington Times"
An honest, objective exploration of how immigrants changed the
identity of the United States. "-Washington Independent Review of
Books"
There is bipartisan Washington agreement about exactly one thing:
No one else knows as much about anything as Michael Barone knows
about American politics. This is confirmed by his sparkling study
of the migrations that have made, and continue to make, our nation
what it is. George F. Will, columnist, "The Washington Post
"
Michael Barone, who created the indispensable "Almanac of American
Politics "and has been updating it since 1972, knows the United
States and its political contours from our largest cities to our
smallest hamlets in all 3,033 of the nation s counties. In "The
Great Surge," he applies that panoramic knowledge to the peopling
of the nation, describing not just where our forebears originated,
but how the many waves of migration within America have shaped our
culture, politics, and destiny. "The Great Surge "added a new
dimension to my understanding of American history. Charles Murray,
bestselling author of "Coming Apart" and "The Bell Curve
"
"Nobody knows the political map of the United States better than
Michael Barone. In this fascinating, fast-paced history he explains
who we Americans are, where we came from, when, and why." Walter A.
McDougall, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, University of
Pennsylvania
Michael Barone dazzles in this eminently lucid and fair minded
account of how a series of great migrations from colonial times to
the present day shaped American cultural and political history.
Linking today's Asian and Hispanic waves of immigrants to the
Irish, Germans and others who came before, Barone reminds us that
American identity has always been a work in progress. At a time
when many doubt America's resilience and coherence, Barone offers
solid ground for hope that America's future will be as rich, as
complex and ultimately as fulfilling as anything we've seen in the
past. Walter Russell Mead, professor, Bard College,
editor-at-large, "The American Interest"
As Michael Barone's The Great Surge demonstrates, America's history
is largely one of migrations, a process that continues today. If
you want to understand what divides Americans in terms of regions
and ethnicity, Barone's book is essential. It also helps to remind
us what has united us as a people through all these demographic
storms, and can do so in the future. Joel Kotkin, author of "The
Next Hundred Million"
Michael Barone paints an illuminating demographic portrait that
shows how historical migration surges and pauses, mostly
unanticipated, profoundly shaped enduring regional interests in
this country. Anyonewanting tounderstand today s divisive politics
and how we got here needs to read this book. William H Frey, Senior
Fellow, Brookings Institution and Research Professor, Population
Studies Center, University of Michigan"
"Reading Michael Barone on politics and demography is like sampling
a tasting menu prepared by a fine chef. His latest offering,
"Shaping Our Nation," does not disappoint...The book is a
delightful read, full of color and stories of people and just
enough data to inform and satisfy...It is a treat for the reader,
and will trick you into knowing more about modern politics than you
might otherwise have wanted to discover." "-Washington Times"
"An honest, objective exploration of how immigrants changed the
identity of the United States." "-Washington Independent Review of
Books"
"There is bipartisan Washington agreement about exactly one thing:
No one else knows as much about anything as Michael Barone knows
about American politics. This is confirmed by his sparkling study
of the migrations that have made, and continue to make, our nation
what it is." -George F. Will, columnist, "The Washington Post
"
Michael Barone, who created the indispensable "Almanac of American
Politics "and has been updating it since 1972, knows the United
States and its political contours from our largest cities to our
smallest hamlets in all 3,033 of the nation's counties. In "The
Great Surge," he applies that panoramic knowledge to the peopling
of the nation, describing not just where our forebears originated,
but how the many waves of migration within America have shaped our
culture, politics, and destiny. "The Great Surge "added a new
dimension to my understanding of American history. -Charles Murray,
bestselling author of "Coming Apart" and "The Bell Curve
"
"Nobody knows the political map of the United States better than
Michael Barone. In this fascinating, fast-paced history he explains
who we Americans are, where we came from, when, and why." -Walter
A. McDougall, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, University of
Pennsylvania
"Michael Barone dazzles in this eminently lucid and fair minded
account of how a series of great migrations from colonial
timese
"There is bipartisan Washington agreement about exactly one thing:
No one else knows as much about anything as Michael Barone knows
about American politics. This is confirmed by his sparkling study
of the migrations that have made, and continue to make, our nation
what it is." -George F. Will, columnist, "The Washington Post
"
Michael Barone, who created the indispensable "Almanac of American
Politics "and has been updating it since 1972, knows the United
States and its political contours from our largest cities to our
smallest hamlets in all 3,033 of the nation's counties. In "The
Great Surge," he applies that panoramic knowledge to the peopling
of the nation, describing not just where our forebears originated,
but how the many waves of migration within America have shaped our
culture, politics, and destiny. "The Great Surge "added a new
dimension to my understanding of American history. -Charles Murray,
bestselling author of "Coming Apart" and "The Bell Curve
"
"Nobody knows the political map of the United States better than
Michael Barone. In this fascinating, fast-paced history he explains
who we Americans are, where we came from, when, and why." -Walter
A. McDougall, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, University of
Pennsylvania
"Michael Barone dazzles in this eminently lucid and fair minded
account of how a series of great migrations from colonial times to
the present day shaped American cultural and political history.
Linking today's Asian and Hispanic waves of immigrants to the
Irish, Germans and others who came before, Barone reminds us that
American identity has always been a work in progress. At a time
when many doubt America's resilience and coherence, Barone offers
solid ground for hope that America's future will be as rich, as
complex and ultimately as fulfilling as anything we've seen in the
past." -Walter Russell Mead, professor, Bard College,
editor-at-large, "The American Interest"
"As Michael Barone's The Great Surger
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