This Land is Your Land

A Barack Obama Summer Reading List Selection 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 Americas 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. 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.