Colin Woodard
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Colin Woodard is a journalist and writer who was born on 12/3/1968. He is a reporter for the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram for State and National Affairs. He won a 2012 George Polk Award for investigative reporting and a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory visa mer Reporting for a series on climate change. He has been a long-time foreign correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has reported from fifty foreign countries and seven continents. His work has appeared in many publications including The Economist, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Newsweek/The Daily Beast and Bloomberg View. His first book Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas, was released in 2000. Since then he has published several others including: The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier, The Republic of Pirates: Being The True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, and American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Verk av Colin Woodard
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011) 1,528 exemplar, 42 recensioner
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down (2007) — Författare — 1,055 exemplar, 23 recensioner
The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier (2004) 284 exemplar, 5 recensioner
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2016) 158 exemplar, 4 recensioner
The Stolen Art of War 1 exemplar
American Nations 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2009 (2009) — Author "Quelling a Pirate Revolt," "In the Pirate's Lair" and "History Lesson" — 7 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2010 (2010) — Author "The War Over Plunder" and "The Revolution's Band of Brothers" — 4 exemplar
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The Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America i GEOGRAPHY; Everybody Gotta be Someplace (december 2011)
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This is almost certainly the best book I've read in 2017. I took copious notes.
Author Colin Woodard's political bias and lack of professionalism badly detract from the book and my opinion of it. No professional historian is he. By the end, I was taking fewer notes and skipping passages in disgust. Long before that, I noted the author's description of a certain event as "obscene": it immediately recalled for me a time in a college history course when (in a display of immaturity) I blatantly insulted one of the intellectual drivers of the American Revolution In an essay exam, for his political views. Afterward, the professor rightly told me "you need to be more objective."
But the information; the many conclusions it led me to draw; and the enormous help it provided in making parts of American history clearer, far outweighed the author's bias. Very highly recommended.
My biggest takeaway is a clearer understanding of the Christian culture of New England ("Yankeedom"): how it secularized as it aged and America grew; and to what extent the Puritans were Christians on an individual level. I already knew the Puritans were known to put Quakers in stocks, but I didn't know they went as far as executing Quakers. It's right to feel skeptical of the Puritans' form of Christianity when many among it would murder members of other religious groups. (The later secularization of Yankee culture only strengths my skepticism of the Puritans.) Woodard displays both the light side and the dark sides of Yankee culture's influence on the other regions: the vast majority of crusades for moral and social reform in America have been led by Yankeedom; but Yankeedom was always seen as meddlesome and arrogant by other regions. Worse in my interpretation, Yankeedom did not spread Christianity among other regions of America the way it spread various secular reforms.
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Other interesting things I learned, or conclusions I drew:
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