In this richly documented history, Michael B. Katz and Mark J. Stern brilliantly capture the dynamics of change and continuity that have shaped American society since the beginning of the twentieth century.With narrative grace and analytic rigor, they tell a story that weaves large-scale structural forces into the fabric of everyday life, and that challenges comforting notions about what it is that separates us from the past. Above all, it is a story that opens our eyes to the new, and old, and in some ways hardening patterns of inequality that continue to divide the United States in the new millennium. For historians, social scientists, and general readers alike, One NationDivisible is an invaluable resource for understanding the nature, consequences, and manifestations of enduring inequality in a society that claims to embrace opportunity as its defining theme.
ALICE O'CONNOR, associate professor of history, University of California, Santa Barbara
To know where you are going, you need to know where you have been. No other book to my knowledge so succinctly, yet so masterfully, teases out the patterns and processes for the 'American Century,' providing both guidebook and compass for our history and identity-and for what we must confront to realize the American Dream for all.
MIKE ROSE, professor of education, University of California, Los Angeles
In One NationDivisible, Michael B. Katz and Mark J. Stern offer a masterful review of how the United States came apart socially, economically, and demographically in the early decades of the twentieth century, how government was instrumental in putting the nation back together again in the wake of the Great Depression, and how social changes and economic transformations after the 1970s have combined with passive government and weak public leadership to divide us once again. Let us hope that many read this book to learn that government is not antithetical to a healthy market economy, but essential to its short-term viability and long-term success.
DOUGLAS S. MASSEY, professor of sociology and public affairs, Office of Population Research,
Princeton University and codirector of the Mexican Migration Project
In this richly documented history, Michael B. Katz and Mark J. Stern brilliantly capture the dynamics of change and continuity that have shaped American society since the beginning of the twentieth century.With narrative grace and analytic rigor, they tell a story that weaves large-scale structural forces into the fabric of everyday life, and that challenges comforting notions about what it is that separates us from the past. Above all, it is a story that opens our eyes to the new, and old, and in some ways hardening patterns of inequality that continue to divide the United States in the new millennium. For historians, social scientists, and general readers alike, One Nation Divisible is an invaluable resource for understanding the nature, consequences, and manifestations of enduring inequality in a society that claims to embrace opportunity as its defining theme. 
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