Expanded on one of
my favourite works of history, David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed. Rather
than considering just the 4 British folkways in developing the nations of
America, Woodard looks at the other elements
and how they developed - French and Hispanic influences, for example,
and how Yankeedom mutated into 'the left coast' on the Pacific. Very readable,
and a great explanation of the divides in US culture today; very pertinent with
the mass, inexplicable support for Trump (well, inexplicable to the Yankees,
which apparently includes me)
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