For the home county crowd: I’ll be speaking on the crisis facing U.S. democracy, how we got here, why we’re vulnerable and what we can do about it, at the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine on June 5 at 6pm. This comes out of my three most recent books — American Nations, American Character and Union — and the related work I’m doing at Nationhood Lab, the project I founded at the Pell Center at Salve Regina University. This is a free event open to the public, so come on down. Book signing afterward. Here’s the description:
U.S. democracy in crisis: How we got here, why we’re vulnerable and what we can do about it
Three years after the 1/6 attack on the Capitol, the U.S. remains on the brink of a collapse into authoritarian rule, Woodard argues, with the federation’s future uncertain. Woodard describes why the U.S. has always been vulnerable to collapse and how a lost civic national story of origins, purpose, identity can help bring us back from the verge.
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.