Early American historian Alan Taylor has won the New-York Historical Society’s 2022 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize for American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850.
Here is Jennifer Schuessler at The New York Times:
The book, published by W.W. Norton, takes a capacious view of the period between the end of the American Revolution and Congress’s failed efforts to pass compromise bills over slavery to stave off the looming Civil War. It looks beyond the familiar great men and geographical boundaries, depicting the expanding country as an “always-imperiled” nation built on “an unstable foundation of rival regions and an ambiguous Constitution.”
David S. Reynolds, reviewing the book last year in The New York Times Book Review, praised it as an “expansive overview” that keenly conveys the internal divisions and animosities that find echoes today.
The book, published by W.W. Norton, takes a capacious view of the period between the end of the American Revolution and Congress’s failed efforts to pass compromise bills over slavery to stave off the looming Civil War. It looks beyond the familiar great men and geographical boundaries, depicting the expanding country as an “always-imperiled” nation built on “an unstable foundation of rival regions and an ambiguous Constitution.”
David S. Reynolds, reviewing the book last year in The New York Times Book Review, praised it as an “expansive overview” that keenly conveys the internal divisions and animosities that find echoes today.
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