This Land

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This landmark collection of nearly 100 essays by New York Times journalist Dan Barry, selected from 10 years of his popular column entitled "This Land," presents a rarely-seen and profoundly powerful portrait of America, made up of shimmering snapshots of everyday people and places. In 2010, while sipping a pint with his colleagues, New York Timescolumnist, Dan Barry, suggested writing a column about America. Not the America on the evening news or in the headlines on the homepage, but the America that is defined and redefined every day by the men and women who comprise it. Since then, Dan Barry has traversed the United States to report and write his widely acclaimed "This Land" column-the title plucked from Woody Guthrie's famous folk song-visiting all fifty states (in many cases, more than once). Over the past ten years, Dan has consistently delivered revelatory, provocative, and deeply affecting stories, each a window into our nation's forgotten...