American Nations, American Union: Interview with Colin Woodard

Tides of History

Audible / Patrick Wyman

History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Few books have influenced my view of American history and politics more than Colin Woodard's American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. We've been divided since the beginning, Woodard argues, and this has influenced every aspect of American history, not to mention its future. He has a new book coming out in May, Union, which expands this thesis further.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:06.2	Hi everybody.
0:16.6	From Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History.
0:19.6	I'm Patrick Weiman.
0:20.6	Thanks for joining me.
0:21.6	So we've got a great guest with us here today.
0:24.3	He wears a few different hats.
0:26.1	He's the state and national affairs writer for the Portland Press Herald-Slash Main
0:30.2	Sunday Telegram, is a contributing editor for Politico, and he reviews books for the Washington
0:34.9	Post.
0:35.9	He is also the author of numerous books of his own.
0:38.8	The Republic of Pirates on the Golden Age of Piracy is one of the most fun popular histories
0:43.0	I've read in the past decade, but my absolute favorite of his books is American Nations,
0:47.8	a history of the 11 rival regional cultures of North America.
0:51.4	It came out back in 2011, and it totally changed the way I thought about American history
0:55.4	and a lot more besides.
0:57.2	He's got a new book coming out soon entitled Union, the struggle to forge the story of United
1:01.8	States nationhood.
1:03.2	Colin Woodard, thanks so much for joining me today.
1:05.1	A great pleasure to be here, Patrick.
1:07.3	So I want to start with American Nations, because it's had so much influence on me and
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