Michael Barone. Shaping Our Nation (2013, Crown Forum).
"From the Scots-Irish influxes of the eighteenth century to the Ellis Island migrations of the early twentieth and Hispanic and Asian ones of the last four decades, people have moved to America partly in order to make a better living—but more important, to create new communities in which they could thrive and live as they wanted. Barone examines how the founders' formula of limited government, civic equality, and tolerance of religious and cultural diversity has provided a ready and useful template for not only coping with these new cultural influences, but for prospering as a nation with cultural variety."
—Shaping our Nation book jacket
