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Honest History for a Dishonest Age
America turns 250, and after years of watching the country argue with itself, I went looking for something steadier than the noise — the real documents, the real stories, the real record of how this improbable nation was built and rebuilt, generation after generation.
What I found became this book: a sweeping, human journey from the founding to today. It doesn’t flinch from America’s failures, and it doesn’t apologize for its greatness. Slavery and the Civil War, civil rights and the cost of freedom — alongside the music, the inventions, and the ordinary people who made this the most daring experiment in human history. By the last page, you won’t just know America’s story. You’ll remember why it’s worth carrying forward.
Why Readers Carry This Book Forward
★ 250 years told as one gripping story — not a textbook.
★ More than 30 “America Untold” stories — true, surprising, and almost forgotten.
★ Honest history: failures faced squarely, greatness celebrated without apology.
★ Written for every American who still believes the country is worth it.
About
Kyle Walkenhorst
Kyle Walkenhorst is a writer, entrepreneur, and media executive — and, as his family and friends would tell you, a giver and an optimist who has never met a dance floor he didn't like. The grandson of immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island in 1923 — and the son of a Navy veteran born on the same Christmas Day, the first American in the family — he was raised with profound gratitude for the country that gave his family everything.
Over thirty years, Kyle built a career telling stories that move people: pioneering native advertising, growing Oracle's magazine audience from 75,000 to 750,000 readers, building brands for IBM, Dell, and Morgan Stanley, and founding Sprocket Media and Walkenhorst Media Group. Along the way, he co-founded a food charity and served a full-time mission. After three decades of telling other people's stories, he finally wrote his own.
His deepest pursuits remain faith, family, and understanding — a life of love built across the very lines that divide so many. He wrote America at 250 in a season when the country he loves felt consumed by division — as an act of love and a search for hope. He found it. He lives in Palm Springs, California, with his partner and their dog, Zoe — the true head of the household.
