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This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History by Beverly Gage

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A Barack Obama Summer Reading List Selection

Pulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.

Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about 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 upon—or live up to—those ideals. This Land Is Your Land is for everyone who wants to find that history—to experience it and confront it, to celebrate it and condemn it—in the places where it happened.

Gage shows that Americans can face their past and still love their country. Toss the book in the back seat—or listen on audio with the windows down—and join the journey.

A Barack Obama Summer Reading List Selection

Pulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.

Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about 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 upon—or live up to—those ideals. This Land Is Your Land is for everyone who wants to find that history—to experience it and confront it, to celebrate it and condemn it—in the places where it happened.

Gage shows that Americans can face their past and still love their country. Toss the book in the back seat—or listen on audio with the windows down—and join the journey.

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

    Title: This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History

    Author: Beverly Gage

    On Sale Date: April 7, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9781668033104

    ISBN 10: 1668033100

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $30.00

    BISAC: Travel / United States / General; History / United States / State & Local; Political Science / Federal Government

    Page Count: 352 pages

  • Beverly Gage teaches American history at Yale. Her book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Bancroft Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

  • Critics are calling it candid, conversational, and companionable:

    • "I'd like to ride shotgun on Beverly Gage's next road trip. She's flexible when faced with traveling snafus, packs light, and will do more than her share of the driving." — Washington Independent Review of Books

    • "Beverly Gage has written This Land Is Your Land with both love of country and honesty about how it can do better." — Washington Independent Review of Books

    • "Far from a dry, academic text, This Land is Your Land strikes a conversational tone, like a friend who is telling you about her experiences." — Hippocampus Magazine

    • "The perfect companion to anyone inclined to take a trip through some of America's most interesting history." — Hippocampus Magazine

This book is for you if

  • You want American history told from the passenger seat, not the lectern.

  • You're curious how the same thirteen places can hold both national pride and national reckoning.

  • You loved the Pulitzer-winning G-Man and want to see Beverly Gage turn her eye on the whole country.

  • You're planning your own road trip and want better company than a guidebook.

  • You want to think seriously about loving a country while being honest about its failures.

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