In the American Crucible, Gary Gerstle expresses an all-encompassing of the historiographical mainstream in America’s cultural, history and a sociological standpoint of Americans identified as Anglo-Saxons throughout the twentieth-century. The book's objective is to look at American history during the twentieth-century in a completely new way. This time focusing more on how America’s quest for racial purity suppressed “New Immigrants”, females, as well as the inferior races and using this to determine the unforeseen destiny of America.
