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‘Simon Winchester is one of the quintessentially English writers who will go anywhere, literally and figuratively … because of his amateur status, boldness and decidedly nonacademic approach to history, [he] achieves something remarkable here’

Literary Review

‘Winchester understands that specificity is what counts, as it always does in writing … He has read prodigiously, and has pounded the trail with equal diligence’

Sunday Telegraph

‘This book’s cleverness lies in an organization neither chronological nor biographical, but elemental: there are five sections on wood, earth, fire, water and metal … This is an imaginative piece of historical writing, interwoven with memoir. But it is, in the end, more than either of those things: it is a love poem to the American landscape and to the spirit of people, now dead, who traversed it’

BBC History

‘Entertaining … A pleasure’

New York Times Book Review

‘Mesmerizing and fascinating … Winchester is a master storyteller, and all the individuals, places, and events that he passionately writes about come to life in exquisite detail … a magnificent achievement in writing, storytelling, and education’

New York Journal of Books

‘The fun here is in Winchester’s exuberant enthusiasm for his new country and for the characters he has found who helped shape it’

Washington Post

‘Vivid, valuable … Winchester’s book is especially fine on retrieving the forgotten map makers, geologists, topographers and engineers who showed them the way … what an extraordinary, propulsive tale he tells’

Wall Street Journal

‘Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging’

Tom Brokaw

‘A very charming and meticulously researched celebration of America’s enduring unity and the various people and historical forces that have made it possible’

The National

‘An elegantly written account … filled with fascinating information’

Boston Globe

‘Another winning book from a historian whose passion for his subjects saturates his works’

Kirkus Reviews

‘Winchester masterfully evokes the excitement of the nation’s early days – when opportunity and possibility were manifest in uncharted mountains and new technologies – while bringing each of his subjects to life … the key to the book’s greatest achievement [is in] conveying the large-scale narrative of unification via the small-scale experience of the individual – the creation of a people by the agglomeration of persons’

Publisher’s Weekly

‘[His] writing style is a fortuitous juxtaposition of the rigors of scientific inquiry with the reporter’s keen eye for a good story. The happy result is this elegantly written and captivating meditation on the unique physiology of that cultural-political phenomenon known as the United States of America’

Washington Times