3 Quotes & Sayings By Colin Woodard

Colin Woodard is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who has been chronicling the American West since the publication of his first book, Dark Valley Destiny: The American Southwest, A Nation Divided, in 2000. He is the author of five award-winning books, including most recently, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America and most recently, Fatal Voyage: The Tragic Story of the Last British Trapper in Alaska. Woodard's work is both acclaimed and best-selling. He is a regular public speaker and has been a guest on dozens of television shows, from the National Geographic Channel to All Things Considered to Dateline NBC.

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Other sovereign democratic states have central governments more corrupted other than our own, but most can fall back on unifying elements we lack: common ethnicity, a shared religion, or near-universal consensus on many fundamental political issues. The United States needs its central government to function cleanly, openly, and efficiently because it's one of the few things binding us together. Colin Woodard
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I am an aristocrat, " Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality. Colin Woodard