Colin Woodard Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Colin Woodard is an author, journalist and historian. Director, Nationhood Lab @PellCenter; Author of #AmericanNations and other histories; Pulitzer finalist on sabbatical from @PressHerald. Also pirates.

O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of the Star-Spangled Banner
Mark Clague
[The author's] timely new book, “O Say Can You Hear: A Cultural Biography of The Star-Spangled Banner” argues that our anthem is valuable precisely because its baggage is the nation’s baggage, “a primary document, a living record of the American experiment in flux."
Hardcover, 2022
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
David Hackett Fischer
David Hackett Fischer's readers have been waiting for his promised "Albion's Seed" sequel "African Founders" for 33 years. Now it's out and I've reviewed it for Washington @Monthly: https://t.co/EumxVdwQzW
Paperback, 1991
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
David Hackett Fischer
David Hackett Fischer's readers have been waiting for his promised "Albion's Seed" sequel "African Founders" for 33 years. Now it's out and I've reviewed it for Washington @Monthly: https://t.co/EumxVdwQzW
Hardcover, 2022
$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book