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Previewing Nations Apart in Blue Hill, Maine, Oct. 25

I’ll be presenting at the 2025 Word Literary Arts Festival in Blue Hill, Maine on my forthcoming book, Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America on the evening of October 25. This event, the festival’s Saturday Keynote, will take place in the Blue Hill Congregational Church.
The book goes on sale Nov. 4, but co-hosts Blue Hill Books will be selling preordered vouchers for it at the event, and you can have your book signed or even personalized for you ahead of receipt. More details to follow.
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven 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 Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.