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04216aam a2200553 i 4500 001 3D43E062C01711EA884EF32597128E48 003 SILO 005 20200707010032 008 191227s2020 nyu b 001 0deng 010 $a 2019057963 020 $a 0525560157 020 $a 9780525560159 035 $a (OCoLC)1127540890 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d JIM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E169.1 $b .W6885 2020 082 00 $a 320.540973 $2 23 100 1 $a Woodard, Colin, $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a Union : $b the struggle to forge the story of United States nationhood / $c Colin Woodard. 264 1 $a [New York, New York] : $b Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, $c [2020] 300 $a xii, 417 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The author of American Nations returns to the historical study of a fractured America by examining how a myth of national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century--a myth that continues to affect us today. Union tells the story of how the myth of our national origins, identity, and purpose was intentionally created in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A small group of individuals--historians, political leaders, and novelists--fashioned a history that attempted to erase the fundamental differences and profound tensions between the nation's regional cultures, the motive for the Confederacy's secession (protecting a slave system), and even the reasons that drove the colonies to secede from Britain. These men were creating the idea of an American nation instead of a union of disparate states, and a specific, ethnically defined "American people" instead of just a republican citizenry. Their emerging nationalist story was immediately and powerfully contested by another set of intellectuals and firebrands who argued that the United States was instead an ethno-state, the homeland of the allegedly superior "Anglo-Saxon" race, upon whom Divine and Darwinian favor shined. Their vision helped create a new federation--the Confederacy--prompting the bloody Civil War. While defeated on the battlefield, their vision later managed to win the war of ideas in the late nineteenth century, capturing the White House in the early twentieth century, and offering the first consensus, pan-regional vision of U.S. nationhood by the close of the first World War. This narrower, more exclusive vision of America would be overthrown in mid-century, but as early twenty-first-century Americans discovered, it was never fully vanquished. Woodard tells the story of the genesis and epic confrontations between these visions of our nation's path and purpose through the lives of the key figures who created them, a cast of characters whose personal quirks and virtues, gifts and demons shaped the destiny of millions"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Nationalism $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Regionalism $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Philosophy. $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a National characteristics, American $x History. 650 7 $a National characteristics, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01033342 650 7 $a Nationalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01033832 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Regionalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093204 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Woodard, Colin, 1968- $t Union. $d New York : Viking, 2020 $z 9780525560166 $w (DLC) 2019057964 941 $a 11 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409035149.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012020155.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331014033.0 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20230310013501.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909061619.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317023220.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707012415.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20210323033056.0 952 $l SXPC124 $d 20201107010318.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200902012112.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20200805014627.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3D43E062C01711EA884EF32597128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIMInitiate Another SILO Locator Search