How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity

Archive from 6/28/07 – What makes a country? What makes America what it is today? Author Andro Linklater argues that changing territorial markers and frontiers played an important role in the creation of our country’s personality. His book is “The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity” (Walker, 2007). Linklater was our guest in June.