Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history) (VOLUME I) Cover
Podcast Mentions

Albion's Seed Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history) (VOLUME I)

David Hackett Fischer

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having b...

Podcasts 1
Quotes 1
The Charlie Kirk Show

It was recommended as a good book detailing the four distinct groups of Englishmen who settled in America and their lasting influence on modern society.

"

I'd be a nerd and I would say like Albion Seed is good do you know about that one Albion Seed is this thick and it's about like the four different groups of Englishmen who came to America and the lega...

— Episode: Ask Charlie Anything 183: The Road to 27...

Episode: Ask Charlie Anything 183: The Road to 270? What Bo...

It was recommended as a good book detailing the four distinct groups of Englishmen who settled in America and their lasting influence on modern society.

"

I'd be a nerd and I would say like Albion Seed is good do you know about that one Albion Seed is this thick and it's about like the four different groups of Englishmen who came to America and the legacy they leave so kind of modern lives are very much truly the descendants of Puritans who came from East Anglia and then a lot of concerted we have the scotch Irish back country you have the Cavaliers in Virginia and then you have the Quakers and those are the four groups that he profiles.

Note: The book recommendations on this page are discovered automatically from podcast transcripts, and may be incorrect or incomplete.