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 the Struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge, for the first time, an American nationhood.
It tells the dramatic tale.
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 the Struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge, for the first time, an American nationhood
