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INVASION OF PRIVACY
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THE NEW AMERICANS
Available for sale from Amazon.com thru this website for $19.56, a 30%
discount.
EDITORIAL REVIEW
As millions of immigrants stream into the United States from around the
globe--including many countries that traditionally have not served as
sources of immigration--Barone helpfully calms jittery nerves about cultural
transformation: "We are not in a wholly new place in American history. We've
been here before." In fact, we were here at the last turn of the century,
when newcomers from Ireland, southern Europe, and elsewhere flocked through
Ellis Island. "Many learned savants predicted a hundred years ago that the
immigrants of their day could never be assimilated, that they would never
undertake the civic obligations and adapt to the civic culture of the United
States. History has proven them wrong," writes Barone. "We need to
learn from America's success in assimilating these earlier immigrants, as
well as from the mistakes that were made along the way." The bulk of the
book is a set of comparative studies outlining the surprising similarities
as well as the differences between Irish immigrants and today's African
Americans, between Italians and Hispanics, and between Jews and Asians.
In each instance, Barone believes the experiences of the former reveal
something about the latter as its members struggle to adapt to their new
home. The approach is like the one Thomas Sowell took many years ago in his
landmark book Ethnic America; in many ways, The New Americans is a
much-needed update of that pioneering work.
What's most compelling about The New Americans, however, is how Barone's
own politics, which lean to the right, find a welcoming place for this new
wave of immigrants, contra Pat Buchanan and a certain type of conservative.
"What is important now is to discard the notion that we are at a totally new
place in American history, that we are about to change from a
white-bread nation to a collection of peoples of color," concludes Barone.
"The descendents of the new Americans of today can be as much an integral
part of their country, and as capable of working their way into its highest
levels, as the descendents of the new Americans of a hundred years ago."
--John Miller
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GOD BLESS THE GO-GOS
One of FREEDOM WRITER's favorite musical groups from the 80's, this album &
the group is honored here because the Go-Gos have conquered their drug &
alcohol problems & have reunited to give 2 generations of audiophiles &
concert goers their upbeat harmonies & onstage artistry from a fine group of
musical ladies who, in FREEDOM WRITER'S opinion, look & sound just as good
as then & maybe even better. This CD is on sale from Amazon.com thru this
website for $13.99, a 22% discount.
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EDITORIAL REVIEW
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Michael Barone of U.S. News & World Report is one of the smartest political
writers in the country. In addition to his journalism, Barone is the
coauthor of the biannual Almanac of American Politics--an essential tome for
inside-the-Beltway pundits and other political junkies--as well as the
curiously underappreciated Our Country, an excellent history of the
United States from FDR to Reagan. In The New Americans, Barone brings his
vast knowledge and sharp talents to the ever-present dilemmas of race and
ethnicity.
After a couple of short-lived tour reunions, the Go-Go's have made it
stick. God Bless the Go-Go's is their first studio album in 17 years,
carrying on as if Belinda Carlisle's sparkling solo career and Jane
Wiedlin's slightly less stellar one had never happened. The tough, assured
sound of 1984's Talk Show is front and center here, at once a sonic
counterpoint to the lyrics' general sense of frustration ("Automatic Rainy
Day," "Unforgiven") and barricade in front of their ultimate triumph in its
face ("Throw Me a Curve," "Vision of Nowness"). Carlisle, for her part,
rides the roar and jangle like "Head Over Heels" was just yesterday, as if
the success she had on her own was just another hoop to jump through
before getting back to business. Now in their 40s, these women have matured
without resigning themselves to the world they once swore wouldn't stop
them. God Bless isn't an unflawed gem, but after a few spins, even some of
its lesser concepts begin to sound like pieces of a manifesto the Go-Go's
have patched back together to shout out loud. --Rickey Wright
