Books by Alan Taylor

He has a new and excellent book out, namely American Civil Wars: A Continental History 1850-1873 .  Among his other virtues, he is renowned for tying in American history to developments in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.  So what should I ask him?

That is the new Alan Taylor book and the subtitle is A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 .  Excerpt:

That was about 236,000 people, and that is from Alan Taylor’s excellent Thomas Jefferson’s Education .  In 1785, by the way, the state legislature unanimously rejected a proposal from evangelicals to free the state’s slaves.