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- ISBN 9781836430582
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2026
- Publisher: Oneworld Publications
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'It’s a marvellous deep dive into the American psyche.' Publishers Weekly
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America’s getting old. It’s soon to celebrate its 250th birthday. It’s getting harder and harder for its citizens to find anything to agree on, even the nation’s history. But it’s still possible to get out there and see the American past for yourself. And it’s a lot more interesting – and colourful – than any tired story of manifest destiny you’ve heard.
Ride along with award-winning historian Beverly Gage on an epic road trip, a drive through US history in thirteen places, dropping by museums, a nuclear silo and a sex commune on the way. From the Battle of the Alamo to Richard Nixon in Disneyland, Gage dives into America’s messy contradictions and discovers a country we still can love.
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'As a historiographic guide to the US - the story of a nation as told by "its museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, monuments, living history pageants, battlefield reenactments and souvenir shops" - it's pretty great.' The Times
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Beverly Gage is professor of twentieth-century American history at Yale University. She is the author of G-Man, a multi-award-winning biography of J. Edgar Hoover. She writes for the New York Times, Washington Post and the New Yorker, among other publications.
