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An insightful, persuasive, and honest defense of immigration as central to the United States' economic power and national security.

America was built by immigrants, yet there has long been strong political opposition to immigration. In recent years, the hostility toward immigration has reached a tipping point. While partisan fighting and confusion over basic policy dominate a broken conversation, we often overlook a fundamental American truth: immigration makes America great.

In The Immigrant Superpower, Tim Kane argues that immigration has been a source of American strength and American exceptionalism since the nation's founding. This book explores how immigration is essential to the military strength, economic power, and innovation of the United States. By combining stories of immigrants who have contributed to the American experience, including in the military and business, with analysis of immigration's effects on wages and unemployment, Kane presents a clear defense of greater immigration as a matter of national security. The only way to win the great power competition of the twenty-first century is to embrace America's identity as a nation of immigrants. As politicians in Washington continue to negotiate with no intention to reach an agreement, Kane exposes the immigration consensus hiding in plain sight. Using original, in-depth surveys of American attitudes toward immigration reform he maps out a step-by-step process to achieve reform.

Straight-talking and full of common sense, The Immigrant Superpower stands in sharp contrast to the wholly dysfunctional debate about immigration in the United States.

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Tim Kane is the J.P. Conte research fellow in Immigration Studies at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and has twice served as a senior economist on the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress. Kane is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California San Diego. Kane is the author of Bleeding Talent (2013) and Balance: The Economics of Great Power from Modern America to Ancient Rome with Glenn Hubbard (2013).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (January 27, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190088192
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190088194
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.18 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.6 x 1.2 x 6.5 inches

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Tim Kane is the J.P. Conte Research Fellow in Immigration Studies at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University where he specializes in economic growth, immigration, and national security.
After working for over a decade as a policy scholar, Kane ran in a special election for an open seat in the U.S. Congress in Ohio as a “pro-trade, pro-immigration” conservative in early 2018. Kane served twice as a senior economist at the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress. He co-founded two software firms in the late 1990s. And he served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force with two tours of duty overseas.
Kane’s latest book is THE IMMIGRANT SUPERPOWER from Oxford University Press.
He also wrote Total Volunteer Force: Lessons from the US Military on Leadership Culture and Talent Management, which was published in July of 2017 by the Hoover Press. In 2013, he co-authored with Glenn Hubbard the book Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America. Balance has since been released as a trade paperback and translated into five languages. In 2012, Kane authored Bleeding Talent, about leadership in the US military.
Dozens of media outlets have cited Dr. Kane’s research, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. He has provided commentary for ABC, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, FOX News, NPR, and Bloomberg TV.
Kane earned a PhD in economics from UC San Diego. He is also a graduate of the US Air Force Academy. \
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Kurt D. Wesolek

An important and timely book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 21, 2022

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Opposition to open borders is often confused with opposition to immigration. Tim demonstrates the importance and vitality that immigration contributes to this country by examining profiles in immigration. I think it is incredibly important to note that immigrants most uniformly and strongly demonstrate the values of citizenship and support for the American ideals. It is Freedom and Opportunity which drives immigration and new immigrants are key to re-vitalizing these values within society.

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Tom Church

An excellent book on immigration from a new and surprisingly effective perspective

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 2, 2022

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Read this book to gain a new perspective on immigration. It's not the story or the argument you're used to hearing.

I can't say enough good things about what Tim has written. There are so many interesting stories, statistics, and ideas in here. And all of them will make you appreciate the good that more immigration can do for America, its people, and of course, its future citizens.

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George Wolanin

Very well researched content on immigration and a must read!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 2, 2022

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Tim has done his research on immigration and takes you back to help understand the purpose and what actually drives our country. It seems that many may need a refresh to understand what immigration means to each and every one of us. An outstanding read and you will not be disappointed.

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Jeff Philippart

Fresh perspective on critical policy issue - immigration

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2022

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Tim Kane conducted extensive research to provide his perspective on a very sensitive policy topic, immigration. Tim’s interviews and anecdotes support his thesis that immigration has been an essential part of America’s leadership in the world. Bravo for avoiding the old talking points and reframing this discussion for a better future.

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Susan Stimson

Very well researched. Thought provoking.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 9, 2022

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Very well written. Helps to see the "problem" of immigration as a real benefit to our Country. Subject is very well researched and presented in an easy-to-understand manner.

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Robin M. Deane

Powerful and informative!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2022

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This takes a balanced, historical look at immigration policy and immigrants themselves. Tim shows how extremism either to the Right or Left is destructive to our nation. A must read!

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Stapayr8485

Must Read on Immigration

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 27, 2022

Before reading this book, I didn't know much about immigration beyond the headlines I see on the news. Kane does a great job pushing against the ignorant, polarizing, and hyper-partisan rhetoric surrounding this issue. He presents countless historical and economic facts that inform a positive, balanced perspective on immigration. He urges voters and policy-makers to find common ground and practical solutions to today's immigration challenges, while suggesting realistic steps forward.

I can't believe how well-written and easy-to-understand this book is. Dr. Kane makes complex historical, political, and economic points accessible to non-experts. I enjoyed reading this book so much that I can honestly say it was a page-turner. Thank you, Dr. Kane, for laboring so diligently and faithfully to bless America with this book!

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David Weinstein

The Writing Style Is Just Awful

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 27, 2022

There may be good reason to be sympathetic with Tim Kane's positions in The Immigrant Superpower. For it is plausible that U.S. military and intellectual power can be furthered by increased immigration. But enduring Kane's method of exposition is a challenge.

Consider one of his favorite phrases. Immigrants, he says, provided "brains, brawn, and bravery". This is an amazing and successful alliteration. But as for meaning, it falters. By brawn, you might suppose Kane means the physical strength and stamina of immigrants working in agriculture, construction, manufacturing, slaughterhouses, and mining. Surprise! He never mentions any of that in his chapter specially dedicated to brawn. He actually means by brawn ... that immigrants sustain and help to increase U.S. population! That is an odd meaning. But, then, why didn't he say immigrants provide brains, POPULATION, and bravery? It is because his chosen alliterative sounds good, so good that he even uses it in the subtitle as well. Kane likes to use common words in unusual ways and assume the reader recognizes and accepts the meanings. In another instance, in his Walls chapter, pp. 95-101 of the hardcover edition, he insists across many pages that border fences are border walls--they ARE!--so that a border wall has already been built along the border with Mexico--it HAS!

Kane also daringly hops away from his topics and he indulges in extra-long digressions. The reader is forced to suffer, in one of many instances, in the middle of his Walls chapter as he discusses the many details of walls that kept out foreigners and kept in citizens in Roman, Chinese, and Byzantine histories. This keeps a reader waiting through 2 1/2 pages searching in vain for any hint of an idea crucial for proving any point about a wall on America's southern border. Kane just likes to write about subjects other than immigration. He takes advantage of many opportunities to depart from his topic of immigration as if he does not find this subject all that interesting. Consider another long digression, for instance, on how unfair is the screening process for passengers at U.S. airports.

Frequently, his arguments are banal. He seems to just be too distracted to properly develop some ideas. Consider, for instance, his argument in his Origins chapter that according to conventional wisdom, immigration to the U.S. has rarely been higher than it is now. True enough, for that IS the conventional wisdom and it IS indeed wrong. One knows that just from studying the Irish and German immigration of 1846-55. But the typical nativist conservative could not possibly be persuaded by the argument that Kane gives here. It is not as if his argument does not SEEM reasonable enough. He says: "Even a quick glance at data on immigrant inflows, presented in Figure 4.1, clearly shows that arrivals in modern times are far lower in number compared with those in the 19th century." The part of the graph for modern times IS, in fact, much lower than that for the 19th century. But the caption reads: "Legal immigration to the United States, 1820-2018". The nativists' anger about immigration to the United States nowadays, though, is about ILLEGAL immigration, which they deem to be very high. No wonder Kane is hoping the reader just gives the graph a quick glance!

Kane's drifting among topics is ubiquitous in this book. Try following his thoughts as he drifts without making introductions, for instance, in his Culture chapter among different ideas about assimilation and the different ways that immigrants have been expected to assimilate in the past and today. Maybe, Kane considers himself the William Faulkner of politics, a novelist whose characters can drift profoundly with their streams of consciousness. I am not convinced.

If you want to read histories of U.S. immigration written by masters, I can recommend superpowers in the literature: for example, American Immigration by Maldwyn Allen Jones (1992) and Dividing Lines by Daniel Tichenor (2002). The one maintains a grand and sweeping perspective that includes perfect topical transitions while the second champions developments of evidence to document a narrative.

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