Neal Asbury

Neal Asbury is a global entrepreneur, chief executive of the Legacy Companies, and the host of the nationally syndicated weekly radio talk show Neal Asbury's Made in America, produced by Radio America. He is the author of two books, Conscientious Equity: An American Entrepreneur's Solutions to the World's Greatest Problems and Mapping America: The Incredible Story and Stunning Hand-Colored Maps and Engravings that Created the United States, co-authored with Jean-Pierre Isbouts.

Asbury is also a frequent guest on CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and BBC and has published more than two hundred articles on global trade issues. He lives in Weston, Florida.

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Carving Up the Americas, September 2022 | Vol. 67, No. 4

By artfully illustrating the boundaries of colonial powers, mapmakers in the 1700s helped define what our New World would become.

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