I’m on Twitter quite a lot because, for better or worse, its the news media’s nervous system and I’m in the news media. So I was surprised and pleased earlier this month when @Jack himself — Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter — piped up with this:
He probably hasn’t seen my response — I don’t have a blue check — but I said I’d love to do an analytical collaboration using the American Nations model and Twitter data. So, Jack, if you’re listening, drop me a DM.
Dorsey’s is the third famous person to plug American Nations in a Tweet in recent months, and I suspect this is the only book to receive praise from this particular trio, the other two being Jeff Daniels and Glenn Beck.
Meanwhile, at this writing, Amazon has the Kindle edition of the book on special for $1.99, for those who, unlike me, don’t mind reading books on screen.
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.