This has been the launch week of my new book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, and, it being a pandemic year and all, I’ve spent a lot of my spare time doing radio interviews, including with some of our country’s excellent public radio stations.
One of my favorites was with Iowa Public Radio‘s statewide hour-long interview program “River to River,” which you can hear here.
I’ve been lucky enough to appear on the show a few times in the past, including to talk with them about American Nations and about American Character, the precursors to Union.
Union went on sale in stores across North America Tuesday. I have virtual events coming up over the next week or so, including one sponsored by Gibson’s in Concord, New Hampshire at 6pm on June 6th and with Washington D.C.’s Politics & Prose on June 28, where author and NPR veteran reporter Tom Gjelten will be interviewing me about Union (register here.)
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.