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

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

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
History
NARRATOR
RP
Robert Petkoff
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
13:33
hr min
RELEASED
2020
June 16
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
445.6
MB

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