More from KUOW Arts & Life How The United States Became United KUOW | By David Hyde Published November 25, 2013 at 2:38 PM AKST Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 14:35 Simon Winchester's book "The Men Who United the States." David Hyde speaks with writer Simon Winchester about his new book, "The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible."