I grew up in Western Maine, for a time in a house surrounded by the campus of the University of Maine at Farmington, so it’s always a pleasure to return there to speak.
This Wednesday, May 3, I’ll be talking about the ideas and history in my most recent book, American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good at UMF’s Lincoln Auditorium. The talk — co-sponsored by the Political Science Department and the Maine Geographic Alliance — is at 11:50 am (corresponding to when classes change there.) Come if you can.
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.