“Shaping Our Nation: How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics” by Michael Barone 

Summary. 

Shaping Our Nation provides a great perspective on American society and the culture of urban America and its cities. The impact of different waves of immigrants is nicely illustrated in City of the Century, The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller.  This book is intense and dense; every sentence has information or insights about our history, where we came from and how the cultural traits from Europe, Asia and Latin America created the emotional landscape upon which to build the twenty-first American century.