“Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?” — Jonathan Safran Foer
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History may be, as Henry Ford said, “all the bunk,” but Yale historian Beverly Gage turns American history into an amusing and compelling road trip from sea to shining sea. Four years. Thirteen trips. 300+ sites. Just the book we need for our embattled birthday.
How Anna Jarvis created Mother’s Day but came to regret it.