In Re-forging America (1927), Lothrop Stoddard (1883–1950) provides a compelling narrative of the American nation. Stoddard uses language and rhetorical techniques to convince the reader that the story he tells is true because it is based on historical facts and common sense, and because he is a patriot who is deeply concerned about the future of the country he loves. However, if we carefully examine how Stoddard constructs his arguments by analyzing the content of his discourse and the rhetorical devices he employs, we find that he has a particular goal in mind in writing his book, mainly, to characterize an American identity that is inextricably tied to a particular and exclusive ethnic/cultural identity: Anglo-Saxonism. Yet, stark differences existed among the thirteen original colonies in terms of economic interests, social customs, ethnicity, cultural norms, religious affiliations, languages spoken, and class stratification that rendered the colonial world a disparate patchwork of largely unconnected entities. Despite these differences, in the colonial era and well into the nineteenth century, America was widely understood to be a nation founded, ruled, and owned by white, Northwestern European–origin, mostly Christian (if only in name) men. There was little public pushback against this account.