Uncover America’s Untold Stories on a Riveting Road Trip Through History with Beverly Gage
Gage is not attempting to represent a comprehensive history of the United States in This Land is Your Land, nor does she deliver a one-to-one ratio of America’s best and worst. Instead, the author provides a thoughtfully curated exploration of some of America’s most poignant historic sites and a means of learning more of our past and, perhaps in the process, gaining a deeper understanding of our present. Gage is not promoting a “Great” America (though she shines a light on myriad high points in the nation’s history), but neither does she sanitize America’s most shameful chapters (Gage, for example, accurately describes the Manzanar War Relocation Center, where thousands of Japanese – most of them American citizens — were held during World War II as a prison, “not a ‘camp’”).
