Beverly Gage

This Land is Your Land (eBook, ePUB)

A Road Trip Through U.S. History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Pulitzer Prizewinning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past. Ride along with Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learnand fightabout our history. From the birth of the nation in Philadelphia to Disneyland and the California dream, This Land Is Your Land offers a guided tour of thirteen places and thirteen key moments that define America's greatest successes and challenges. The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a document that proclaimed the liberty and equality of all human beings, but produced a country that often failed to agree uponor live up tothose ideals. This Land Is Your Land is for everyone who wants to find that historyto experience it and confront it, to celebrate it and condemn itin the places where it happened. In our fraught moment for American patriotism, Gage shows that Americans can face their past and still love their country. Toss the book in the back seator listen on audio with the windows downand join the journey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781668033128
• Artikelnr.: 74372822

Autorenporträt

Beverly Gage is the John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History at Yale University. Her courses focus on US politics, government, and social movements. Her book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Bancroft Prize in American History, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography. She is also the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror, and writes for numerous journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.