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The flag, the cross, and the station wagon : a graying American looks back at his suburban boyhood and wonders what the hell happened / Bill McKibben.

McKibben, Bill, (author.).

Summary:
Bill McKibben-- award-winning author, activist, educator-- is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing-- knowing-- that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang "Kumbaya" at church. And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth. But fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril. And he is curious: What the hell happened? In this revelatory cri de coeur, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, on the rise of the religious right, and on our environmental crisis to explain how we got to this point. He finds that he is not without hope. And he wonders if any of that trinity of his youth-- the flag, the cross, and the station wagon-- could, or should, be reclaimed in the fight for a fairer future.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781250823601 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1250823609 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 226 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Henry Holt, 2022.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
The setting -- The flag -- The cross -- The station wagon -- People of a certain age -- Notes, sources, and acknowledgments.
Subject: McKibben, Bill.
Christianity and culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Patriotism > United States.
United States > Civilization > 1970-

Available copies

  • 12 of 12 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 1 current hold with 12 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library 201.72 MCKIBBE (Text) 50686016177144 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Cambria County Library 201.72 M158f (Text) 85131001839175 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Carbondale Public Library 201.72 MCKIBBE (Text) 50688010835487 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults Mckibben Biography (Text) 34001001416294 Adult Area Available -
Kreutz Creek Valley Library Adults 201.72 MCK Nonfiction (Text) 34261000555233 Adult Area New Available -
Montrose 201.72 MCKI (Text) 37000009439180 SSQM Main Floor Available -
Parkland Community Library 201.72 MCK (Text) 34422007255918 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main 306.0973 McK (Text) 33223008923111 Non-fiction Available -
Allentown Public Library 201.72 MCKI (Text) 34455006914655 Adult Nonfiction 2nd FL Available -
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