American Nations
American Nations becomes a Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Last week, my fourth book, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, made the Wall Street Journal bestseller list for the first time, eight years after its initial release. For the week ending July 20, it made #7 on the Non-fiction e-book list. (If you don't subscribe, other papers publish this list.)The book also made #106 on the USA Today Bestseller List for all types of books and editions.As you will likely surmise, most of the sales were e-books and, since the New York Times doesn't have a category for that, it didn't make …
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Speaking on American Character, St. Joseph’s College, April 24
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Sen. King says Gorsuch would return US jurisprudence to the early 1930s
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COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.