Alan Taylor is one of America’s most distinguished historians. He is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor at the University of Virginia, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History and the author of 10 previous books, nearly all dealing with early American history. Mr. Taylor describes this one, “American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850,” as a sequel to his two earlier books, “American Colonies: The Settling of North America” (2001) and “American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804” (2016). His book is written in clear, readable prose designed for readers with little or no prior knowledge of the period, and the work has touches of wokeness, which helps to fit it nicely into this extraordinary moment in our history.
