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Troubled by multiculturalism's ethnocentric offshoots, they fretted over the "disuniting" of American culture.

He opposed what he saw as the disuniting of White/European peoples through intense nationalism and infighting.

He became a leading opponent of multiculturalism in the 1980s and articulated this stance in his book The Disuniting of America (1991).

Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. discussed identity politics extensively in his book The Disuniting of America.

The disuniting, polity-corrosive effects of all four of these unarguably great films have been partially mitigated by movies of lesser stature, of course.

Booknotes interview with Schlessinger on The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society, May 10, 1998.

Best sellers like "Culture of Complaint," by Robert Hughes, and "The Disuniting of America," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., are earlier examples.

Among these are the persistence of ethnic identity, the failure of the old model of immigrant assimilation to hold true in the case of many Latinos, and the assumption that multiculturalist initiatives could lead to the disuniting of America.

In 1991, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., a former advisor to the Kennedy and other US administrations and Pulitzer Prize winner, published a book critical of multiculturalism with the title The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society.

By setting up God as the antithesis of humanity, Hegel's pupil Ludwig Feuerbach (1804--72) argued, religion was bringing about "the disuniting of man from himself.... God is perfect, man imperfect; God eternal, man temporal; God almighty, man weak.

"86 In his The Disuniting of America, Arthur Schlesinger subscribes to the Bush idea of a nation, united by shared belief in an American Creed to be found in our history and greatest documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address.