Colin Woodard
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Colin Woodard is a journalist and writer who was born on 12/3/1968. He is a reporter for the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram for State and National Affairs. He won a 2012 George Polk Award for investigative reporting and a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory näytä lisää Reporting for a series on climate change. He has been a long-time foreign correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has reported from fifty foreign countries and seven continents. His work has appeared in many publications including The Economist, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Newsweek/The Daily Beast and Bloomberg View. His first book Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas, was released in 2000. Since then he has published several others including: The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier, The Republic of Pirates: Being The True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, and American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011) 1,482 kappaletta
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down (2007) — Tekijä — 1,016 kappaletta
The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier (2004) 278 kappaletta
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2016) 151 kappaletta
The Stolen Art of War 1 kappale
American Nations 1 kappale
Associated Works
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2009 (2009) — Author "Quelling a Pirate Revolt," "In the Pirate's Lair" and "History Lesson" — 7 kappaletta
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2010 (2010) — Author "The War Over Plunder" and "The Revolution's Band of Brothers" — 4 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1968
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Portland, Maine, USA
Budapest, Hungary
Zagreb, Croatia
Washington, D.C., USA - Agentti
- Jill Grinberg
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The Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, GEOGRAPHY; Everybody Gotta be Someplace (joulukuu 2011)
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Action packed but the only reason it got 4/5⭐ is because the "Republic" itself arrived so late in the book - the end of Ch. 5. It opens with Henry Avery, who I understand was an important part of the history of Nassau, but he died long before these events. I wanted more of William Dampier, a cohort of Avery, who had a much bigger role in Roger's early privateering schemes and rise to prominence. Thatch, starting to go by Blackbeard, takes a backseat to Bellamy's stardom, despite being a co-founder. Be prepared for a lot of backstory before all the pirates begin to gather and set up for the great showdown. But Woodard successfully explains why the Golden Age emerged when it did, describes life aboard a naval vs pirate vessel, and the politics of pirate hunting through Rogers. Overall, this one succeeded where Under the Black Flag did not and was thoroughly enjoyable!… (lisätietoja)