What Is America?

{{Short description|2008 book by Ronald Wright}} {{Infobox book | italic title =  | name = What Is America? | image = What Is America.jpg | image_size = | border = | alt = | caption = | author = Ronald Wright | cover_artist = | country = | series = | release_number = | subject = United States history | set_in = | publisher = Da Capo Press | publisher2 = | pub_date = 2008 | media_type = | pages = | awards = | isbn = 9781921351501 | isbn_note = | dewey = 973 | congress = E178 | preceded_by = A Short History of Progress | followed_by = | notes = | exclude_cover = | website = }} '''''What Is America? A Short History of the New World Order''''' ({{ISBN|9781921351501}}) is a 2008 non-fiction book by Ronald Wright that continues the thread begun in ''A Short History of Progress'' by examining what he calls "the Columbian Age" and consequently the nature and historical origins of modern American imperium.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pevere |first=Geoff |date=2008-08-24 |title=That frontier mythology now threatens the world |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2008/08/24/that_frontier_mythology_now_threatens_the_world.html |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=thestar.com |language=en}}</ref>

==See also== *''A Short History of Progress'' *''Stolen Continents''

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==External links== * [http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676979824 Publisher's site] Knopf Canada * [https://web.archive.org/web/20121105094052/http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2008/10/24/f-ronald-wright-what-is-america.html Q&A: Birth of a Nation] CBC-hosted author interview

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