Michael Barone (pundit)
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Michael Barone (born 1944 in Highland Park, Michigan) is an American political analyst, pundit and journalist. He is best known for being the principal author of The Almanac of American Politics, a reference work concerning US governors and federal politicians, and published biannually by National Journal. Barone is also a regular commentator on U.S. elections and political trends for the Fox News Channel.
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[edit] Career
Barone is a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report and a frequent contributor during Fox News Channel's election coverage. His political views are generally conservative. Barone has said he is not a religious believer, although he is sympathetic to and respectful of socially conservative believers.
His commentary has been concerned with the topic of immigration. Perhaps partly as a result of being a descendant of Italian immigrants, Barone takes an optimistic view of contemporary immigration into the US. He says that Hispanic immigration has parallels to the Italian experience and that, given the right circumstances, that current and future Hispanic and other immigrants can become Americanized and assimilated, just as the Italians were.
He is the author of several books:
- Our Country: the shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (Free Press, 1990)
- The New Americans: how the melting pot can work again (Regnery Publishing, 2001)
- Hard America, Soft America: competition vs. coddling and the battle for the nation's future (Crown Forum, 2004)
- Our First Revolution: the remarkable British uprising that inspired America's founding fathers (Crown Publishers, 2007), a history of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and how it led to the American Revolution.
[edit] Background
Barone graduated from Cranbrook Schools in 1962. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1966 and a law degree from Yale Law School in 1969. He is a native of suburban Detroit, Michigan. Although his political viewpoint is center-right today, in the 1960s he worked as an intern for Jerome Cavanagh, the Democratic mayor of Detroit.[1]
