Uncover America’s Untold Stories on a Riveting Road Trip Through History with Beverly Gage
To that, she mixes in anecdotes about her own history, like visits she made to historic sites as a child, closing the distance between writer and reader. I was immediately brought back to my own childhood field trips to California’s Spanish Missions (and I can easily imagine a conversation with Gage about those). Gage offers tantalizing details of various characters in American history to whet the appetites of readers, as is the case in her Michigan chapter, which paints a picture of America’s labor movement — including a detailed and ultimately unflattering portrait of Henry Ford.
