New York Times columnist Dan Barry, ’80, is the author of “This Land: America, Lost and Found,” published in September 2018. Selected from a decade of his distinctive “This Land” columns, Barry presents a “powerful but rarely seen portrait of America.”
Barry began “This Land” in 2007 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and on the eve of a national recession aiming to write columns 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.”
Spanning three presidents – Bush, Obama, and Trump – Barry crisscrossed the nation, filling deeply moving narrative snapshots paired with visual snapshots from award-winning Times photographers of locations from the tiniest dot on the map to the city that calls itself the Capital of the World.
This is the fifth book by Barry, also the author of “The Boys in the Bunkhouse,” which was selected as the All Bonaventure Reads book for 2016-17.
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