The family history of incoming British Prime Minister Boris Johnson illustrates Israel Zangwill's message in "The Melting Pot," his play about New York of the 1900s: "America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming... Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians – into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American."
Read the whole thing at TheLatest.com: https://thelatest.com/tlt/boris-johnson-apotheosis-new-york-boris-johnson-donald-trump-new-1563993377