The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon

<p><b>One of the <i>New Yorker</i>''s Best Books of 2022</b><br><br><b>Bill McKibben¿award-winning author, activist, educator¿is fiercely curious. <br><br>¿I¿m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.¿</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>And he is curious: What the hell happened?<br><br>In this revelatory <i>cri de coeur</i>, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on ra