“Must reading for new coalitionists, new populists and pluralists.”

Irving M. Levine
Director, National Project on Ethnic America

“… it is perhaps the unequal burden of Americans like Michael Novak to enlighten our intellectual, governmental, and corporate leadership.”

Mayor John V. Lindsay

“A provocative study of America’s ethnic groupings—the Poles, Italians, Greeks, Slavs, Irish, Puerto Ricans, Jews, and others—as ‘unmeltable’ in the national stew.”

Publishers Weekly

“He fires away on every level. Why doesn’t a curator who will organize an exhibition of black art organize one of Lithuanian art? One of six people in New York is of Italian origin. But only 14 out of 165 are deans in the City University. Why do educated classes find it so hard to understand the man who drives a beer truck?”

The New York Times

“That Novak has so brilliantly explored ethnic angst and charted a pragmatic course for ‘a new cultural pluralism’ could well signal an important change in American politics.”

Newsweek

“Perhaps the best reflection on white ethnic life that has appeared so far… teems with good sense.”

America