February book club post

So, do you pronounce the R in February? (I do.)

It’s snowing again in southern New England, and I am trying to catch up on my reading after a slow couple of months. I just finished two absolutely excellent nonfiction books, however: one was Colin Woodard’s American Nations, which I recommend to literally anybody who lives in North America or has to deal with North Americans.

I took the rare step for me of leaving this one a Goodreads review, because I think it’s that important of a book.

**Looks around nervously**

So. Er. That's concerning. Also, I feel seen.

This book was written in 2010-ish, and it's enlightening, edifying, and full of bits of American history of which I was previously unaware, or details that I definitely didn't learn in high school history class. (Such as Alexander Hamilton's role in provoking the Whiskey Rebellion by facilitating the disenfranchisement of rural people holding federal debt, and then taxing the whiskey they used as currency payable in hard coin, oops.)

Anyway, I highly recommend this one. I previously read Woodard's REPUBLIC OF PIRATES, which is also excellent but gets bogged down in the end. If I could give this one six stars, I would.