Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood by Woodard, Colin

Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

A Christian Science Monitor best book of 2020 Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare...
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Author: Colin Woodard
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Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood by Woodard, Colin

Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

¥4,139

Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

¥4,139
Author: Colin Woodard
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A Christian Science Monitor best book of 2020

Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare history that tells what influential thinkers failed to think, what famous writers left unwritten.
--Jill Leovy, The American Scholar

By the bestselling author of American Nations, the story of how the myth of U.S. national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century--a myth that continues to affect us today

Union tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood. On one hand, a small group of individuals--historians, political leaders, and novelists--fashioned and promoted the idea of America as nation that had a God-given mission to lead humanity toward freedom, equality, and self-government. But this emerging narrative was swiftly contested by another set of intellectuals and firebrands who argued that the United States was instead the homeland of the allegedly superior Anglo-Saxon race, upon whom divine and Darwinian favor shined.

Colin Woodard tells the story of the genesis and epic confrontations between these visions of our nation's path and purpose through the lives of the key figures who created them, a cast of characters whose personal quirks and virtues, gifts and demons shaped the destiny of millions.

Author: Colin Woodard
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/15/2021
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780525560173

About the Author
Colin Woodard, a New York Times bestselling author and historian, is the state and national affairs writer at the Portland Press Herald, where he received a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. A longtime foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and the San Francisco Chronicle, he has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and six continents. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian, Politico, and dozens of other publications. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago, he is the author of American Nations, American Character, The Lobster Coast, The Republic of Pirates, and Ocean's End. He lives in Maine.

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