{"product_id":"the-flag-the-cross-and-the-station-wagon-a-graying-american-looks-back-at-his-suburban-boyhood-and-wonders-what-the-hell-happened-9781250871435","title":"The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2022\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd he is curious: What the hell happened? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this revelatory \u003ci\u003ecri de coeur\u003c\/i\u003e, 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--\u003ci\u003eThe Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon\u003c\/i\u003e--could, or should, be reclaimed in the fight for a fairer future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Holt McDougal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250871435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240","brand":"Bill McKibben","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42737779179701,"sku":"9781250871435","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_96e41cc7-025b-47c9-8c81-03b20c9b3987.jpg?v=1676385300","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-flag-the-cross-and-the-station-wagon-a-graying-american-looks-back-at-his-suburban-boyhood-and-wonders-what-the-hell-happened-9781250871435","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}