Join Pulitzer Prize winning author Beverly Gage as she discusses her latest book This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History. This Land is Your Land (2026), offers a behind-the-steering-wheel retelling of 250 years of U.S. history, starting at Philadelphia’s Revolution-era historic sites and ending at Disneyland in the 20th-century California dream. The book was a New York Times bestseller and a selection for Barack Obama’s 2026 Summer Reading List.
Beverly Gage is the John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History at Yale. Her courses focus on 20th-century U.S. political history. Her previous book, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and was named a best book of 2022 by the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Smithsonian. She is currently writing a biography of Ronald Reagan, with an emphasis on the ways that debates over communism and the Cold War shaped his life and politics.
Copies of This Land is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Breakwater Books.
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