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Winner of the 2002 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award
A fresh and accessible book that fully examines [a] fundamental American paradox. He has credibly and fascinatingly, traced the odd mixture of high ideals and base doubts that shaped race and immigration policy over the last century.---Joseph Dolman, The New Leader
The publication of this book could not be more timely. The first eighty pages should be compulsory reading for anybody in the United Kingdom (and elsewhere) involved with immigrants or asylum-seekers, whether at the level of policy-making, policy administration, or merely as citizen hosts.---Jim Potter, Times Literary Supplement
A model of clear writing . . . engaging and informative.---Steven Goodson, History: Reviews of New Books
American Crucible is an illuminating addition to what has become a vibrant academic cottage industry, the study of nationalism. . . . [A] confident and elegantly written narrative.---John T. McGreevy, Chicago Tribune
The most probing and thought-provoking history of American nationalism ever written.---James Green, The Boston Globe
Gerstle straddles the Old and the New Left, and this gives him a perspective that frequently makes for a fertile and unpredictable analysis.---Peter Skerry, National Journal
A brilliant interpretation of how ideas about race and national identity have defined the US in the 20th century. . . . Engagingly written, wearing its historical learning lightly and combining pertinent cultural examples with political events, American Crucible is a work of profound historical originality and political significance that confirms Gerstle as the doyen among historians of Americanism.---Desmond King, Times Higher Educational Supplement
[An] exemplary analysis.. . . Thanks to American Crucible, the nature of [the] complexities, contradictions, and burdens [of nationalism] are made clear.---Susan Curtis, American Nationalism
An ambitious and provocative synthetic study. . . Gerstle's larger argument that race has been central to the definition of the American nation in the twentieth century is, ultimately, persuasive and should provoke considerable discussion on the historical character and boundaries of citizenship in the United States.---Eric Arnesen, The Journal of American History
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