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About the book
Every American story starts with someone going somewhere
Paul Revere rode out of Boston in the dark. Wagon families scanned the horizon for Chimney Rock, because Chimney Rock meant they'd made it a third of the way to Oregon. Harriet Tubman moved people north through country that wanted them caught. Lewis and Clark pushed up the Missouri into land no map could tell them about, and a generation of Delta musicians carried the blues north with everything they owned.
Those places haven't gone anywhere. Independence Rock still rises above the Wyoming plains with emigrant names carved into it. You can stand in New York Harbor where the ships came in, drive a surviving stretch of Route 66, watch a launch from Cape Canaveral, or sit in the grandstand at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, where Black ballplayers packed the stands long before the majors let them in.
"America: The Places and Paths That Made Us" pairs the country's defining journeys with the ground where they happened. You read the story, then you see the place as it looks today. It's the story of America told through the routes we traveled and the places we remember.
168 pages, hardcover, the kind of book that lives on the coffee table and gets picked up every time someone comes over.
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A collector’s edition coffee-table book
- Format
- Hardcover, collector’s edition
- Pages
- 168
- Size
- 11.25 × 8.75 in
- Printing
- Fine-art ink on heavy art paper
- Printed in
- North America
- Ships
- By November 13, 2026
- Publisher
- Pediment Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781638462156
- Presented by
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USA TODAY
Built like something you’ll hand down
A 120-point case board, thicker than most hardcovers. Fine-art ink for a wide tonal range in every photograph. Heavy art paper meant to last for generations, and binding that never lets a page go. Printed entirely in North America, and checked before it ships.
We are Pediment Publishing, an independent publisher of premium books and wall art. We have been wowing millions of customers for more than 25 years, and we are rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau.
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