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A landmark collection by New York Times journalist Dan Barry, selected from a decade of his distinctive This Land columns and presenting a powerful but rarely seen portrait of America. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and on the eve of a national recession, New York Times writer Dan Barry launched a column about America: not the one populated only by cable-news pundits, but the America defined and redefined by those who clean the hotel rooms, tend the beet fields, endure disasters both natural and manmade. As the name of the president changed from Bush to Obama to Trump, Barry was crisscrossing the country, filing deeply moving stories from the tiniest dot on the American map to the city that calls itself the Capital of the World. These narrative and visual snapshots of American life create a majestic tapestry of our shared experience, capturing how our nation is at once flawed and exceptional, paralyzed and ascendant, as cruel and violent as it can be gentle and benevolent.

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"Dan Barry gives dignity even to the darkest corners of the American experience. He is the closest thing we have to a contemporary Steinbeck. -- ""Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author"" Dan Barry proves once again that in his intelligent company, attention paid is its own reward. Eloquence, wit, and compassion...are alive and well in these pages. -- ""Alice McDermott, New York Times bestselling author"""

Dan Barry gives dignity even to the darkest corners of the American experience. He is the closest thing we have to a contemporary Steinbeck. -- Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author Dan Barry proves once again that in his intelligent company, attention paid is its own reward. Eloquence, wit, and compassion...are alive and well in these pages. -- Alice McDermott, New York Times bestselling author

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Dan Barry is a journalist and author of THE BOYS IN THE BUNKHOUSE and BOTTOM OF THE 33RD. Among his many journalistic honors are a share of a Pulitzer Prize: a George Polk Award; an American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for deadline reporting (for coverage of the first anniversary of 9/11); a Mike Berger Award for in-depth human interest reporting; and the PEN/ESPN Literary Award for Sports Writing. He lives with his family in Maplewood, N.J. Allan Robertson is a voice talent and audiobook narrator. Janina Edwards, an Earphone Award-winning narrator, is a graduate of the acting program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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