{"product_id":"union-colin-woodard-9780525560173","title":"Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e best book of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Relentlessly accessible. . . . This is that rare history that tells what influential thinkers failed to think, what famous writers left unwritten.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Jill Leovy, \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Nations\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnion\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColin 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin Woodard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0525560173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525560173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 1.00d","brand":"Colin Woodard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049946149119,"sku":"9780525560173","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f9409c71-d43a-4db8-b3fb-567fbac8184a.jpg?v=1685004305","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/union-colin-woodard-9780525560173","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}