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The classic image of the American nation — a melting pot in which differences of race, wealth, religion, and nationality

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Arthur Meier Schlesinger

Table of contents :
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION

FOREWORD
1 “A New Race”?
2 History the Weapon
3 The Battle of the Schools
4 The Decomposition of America
5 E Pluribus Unum?
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX: SCHLESINGER’S SYLLABUS
NOTES ON SOURCES
INDEX

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