Edwin C. Hagenstein
Edwin (call him Ed) considers himself “no New Englander really, but a son of the Mid-Atlantic,” though he spent much of his life in Massachusetts. In Boston he worked in educational publishing for three decades as a textbook writer and editor, specializing in history and social studies. During that time, he often considered how best to convey the fundamentals of American government to young readers and concluded that vocabulary was key. In researching The Language of Liberty, he found that even the most familiar political terms had surprising depths. Sharing some with friends and colleagues, he noted their common response: “Wow—I’ve used that term all this time, but never understood half of what it meant!” Hagenstein has also published the well-received anthology, American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land (Yale University Press, 2011). Since 2018 he has lived in northern New Mexico.
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