Melanie Kirkpatrick

‘No great American festival is as surrounded by so much myth and conjecture as Thanksgiving Day, but Melanie Kirkpatrick has finally laid them all to rest. In this well-researched, well-written and beautifully produced book she considers the holiday from every angle — historical, emotional, patriotic, even gastronomic. The result is a surprise on every page. She shows brilliantly how from cooking pot to melting pot, America is a product of Thanksgiving as much as Thanksgiving is a product of America.’

—Andrew Roberts
author of Napoleon: A Life