Book of the Week
How The States Got Their Shapes
This week’s book of the week is “How The States Got Their Shapes” by Mark Stein. The author discussed his book on Book TV last weekend Saturday February 7 – Sunday February 8. An interesting look at events in American History including the Louisiana Purchase, the Missouri Compromise and gold discoveries in several western states.
Quoting now from the introduction on Book TV
Mark Stein recounts how each American state’s borders were drawn and why they have their current shapes. From the peculiarities of the unattached upper Peninsula of Michigan to the reasoning for a West Virginia and not an East Virgina and the boundaries of the Northeastern states of Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire that do not extend to their natural borders of the St. Lawrence River. This event was hosted by Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC.
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