Beverly Gage

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023 Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Winner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy Winner of the American History Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Longlisted for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction When he became director of the...

America’s getting old. It’s soon to celebrate its 250th birthday. But it’s getting harder and harder for its citizens to find anything to agree on. Students pull down statues of Abraham Lincoln, while others rally around Confederacy symbols. In one version of the story, the first ‘Americans’ are brave pioneers; in another, they are settler colonialists. For some, the Founding...