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Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home by Peter Santenello

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An Instant New York Times Bestseller

Come along with an adventurous and charismatic independent journalist (perhaps you're one of his four million subscribers on YouTube) on a journey through some of the very best of America, reminding us of all the reasons we’ve got to love this place and one another.

After years filming from Kabul to the Amazon, journalist Peter Santenello turned his camera toward home — and found a country far stranger, warmer, and more surprising than the headlines suggest.

Traveling from Appalachian hollows to East LA, from Amish snowbirds in Florida to Yupik reindeer herders in Alaska, Santenello sits down at kitchen tables most journalists never reach, letting his hosts tell their own stories in their own words.

Your Fellow Americans is less an argument against division than an invitation past it — a portrait of a country whose people, it turns out, mostly just want to be seen.

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

Come along with an adventurous and charismatic independent journalist (perhaps you're one of his four million subscribers on YouTube) on a journey through some of the very best of America, reminding us of all the reasons we’ve got to love this place and one another.

After years filming from Kabul to the Amazon, journalist Peter Santenello turned his camera toward home — and found a country far stranger, warmer, and more surprising than the headlines suggest.

Traveling from Appalachian hollows to East LA, from Amish snowbirds in Florida to Yupik reindeer herders in Alaska, Santenello sits down at kitchen tables most journalists never reach, letting his hosts tell their own stories in their own words.

Your Fellow Americans is less an argument against division than an invitation past it — a portrait of a country whose people, it turns out, mostly just want to be seen.

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster

    Title: Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home

    Author: Peter Santenello

    On Sale Date: August 4, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9781668214343

    ISBN 10: 1668214342

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $30.00

    BISAC: Travel / United States / General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs

    Page Count: 336

  • Peter Santenello is an independent journalist and filmmaker whose travels have taken him to eighty-five countries and residences in five, building an audience of more than four million YouTube subscribers by simply letting people tell their own stories. Your Fellow Americans turns that same patient, curious lens on his own country, and the results are the most personal work of his career.

  • Critics and fellow bestselling authors are calling it surprising, dynamic, and deeply human:

    • "Really great." — Ryan Holiday, #1 New York Times bestselling author

    • "Think Anthony Bourdain crossed with Michael Moore.... You'll find this book surprising." — Los Angeles Times

    • "Dynamic, dramatic, surprising and often comfortably amusing." — Barbara Bamberger Scott, Bookreporter

This book is for you if

  • You're tired of takes about America and want to actually meet some Americans.

  • You loved Peter Santenello's YouTube travels and want more of his eye for people.

  • You're drawn to travel writing that trades summary judgments for real conversations.

  • You want a portrait of the country that doesn't flatten anyone into a stereotype.

  • You believe the most interesting version of America is the one nobody's filming for clicks.

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