Unmeltable Ethnics

The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics, by Michael Novak. New York: Macmillan. 321 pp.

Of the half-dozen studies of white ethnicity in America that have appeared during the past couple of years, Michael Novak’s The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics is probably the most valuable—and the most abrasive. It has something to irritate if not offend almost every reader, but at the same time it contains a number of hard truths about monumental injustices and equally monument...