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DESCRIPTION:As the United States approaches its 250th birthday\, the forces
  pulling the United States apart are perilous.  Colin Woodard\, Director o
 f the Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University\, examines the things that
  divide Americans – and the enduring unifying appeal of the Declaration 
 of Independence.\n\nWoodard – a New York Times bestselling historian and
  Polk Award-winning journalist – is one of the most respected authoritie
 s on North American regionalism\, the sociology of United States nationhoo
 d\, and how our colonial past shapes and explains the present. Compelling\
 , dynamic and thought provoking\, he offers a fascinating look at where Am
 erica has come from\, how we ended up as we are\, and how we might shape o
 ur future. Author of the award-winning Wall Street Journal bestseller Amer
 ican Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North Ame
 rica\, Woodard has written six books\, including The Republic of Pirates
 – a New York Times bestselling history of Blackbeard’s pirate gang tha
 t was made into a primetime NBC series with John Malkovich and Claire Foye
  – and Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhoo
 d\, which tells the harrowing story of the creation of the American myth i
 n the 19th century\, a story that reverberates in the news cycle today.\n\
 nWoodard is director of Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University’s Pell
  Center for International Relations and Public Policy. A POLITICO contribu
 ting editor\, he was state and national affairs writer at the Portland Pre
 ss Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram\, where he received a 2012 George Polk
  Award and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory repo
 rting. A longtime foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor\
 , The San Francisco Chronicle and The Chronicle of Higher Education\, he h
 as reported from more than 50 foreign countries and seven continents from 
 postings in Budapest\, Zagreb\, Washington\, D.C.\, and the U.S.-Mexico bo
 rder and covered the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and its blood
 y aftermath.
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SUMMARY:Nations Apart 
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