| International Standard Book Number |
9781668033128 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781668033104 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668033100 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Gage, Beverly, author.
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| Title Statement |
This land is your land : a road trip through U.S. history / Beverly Gage.
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| Edition Statement |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xxv, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-306) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Introduction: Are we there yet? -- The great experiment -- Notes on the state of Virginia -- Oppression with a vengeance -- Gone to Texas -- The north star -- South Carolina leads the way -- The center of the nation -- The jungle -- Secret formulas -- An industrial epic -- Rockets and your future -- Is this America? -- The carousel of progress -- Epilogue: Where we are.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"What if you could learn 250 years of American history by going on a fun, surprising, and unconventional road trip? And what if your guide was the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage? Two and a half centuries out from the founding of the United States, the question of what it means to be an American is as fraught as ever. Gage brings the complexity of our past alive in thirteen road trips through thirteen key places and moments in American history. In This Land Is Your Land, she travels from the Alamo to Los Angeles, from Independence Hall to Disneyland, to show just how complicated, marvelous, inspiring, and harrowing our national journey has been. Along the way, she stops off at museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, monuments, living-history pageants, battlefield reenactments, and souvenir shops -- anywhere Americans go to learn (and fight) about our past. She even spends a night in a nuclear missile silo. From the birth of the nation in Philadelphia and on Virginia's plantations to the rise of the Cold War Southwest and the Southern California dream, she gives us the story of America's successes and failures, along with the endless controversies over how we remember ourselves. 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 yielded a country often riddled with conflict and injustices. This Land Is Your Land is an invitation to explore and reflect on our national tensions -- to understand where we are as a country by seeing it, touching it, and feeling it directly. Her book is a thrilling invitation to experience and understand our past rather than turn away from it."-- Inside book jacket flap.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Collective memory United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Historic sites United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Automobile travel United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Museums United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Historical reenactments United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Museums United States Guidebooks.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Description and travel.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States History Miscellanea.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Politics and government.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Guidebooks.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Travel writing.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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