The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon Audiobook Libro.fm

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Narrator Eric Jason Martin adds gusto to this minimemoir which spans much of author Bill McKibbens lifetimeAudioFile on The Flag the Cross and the Station Wagon

Bill McKibbenawardwinning author activist educatoris fiercely curious

Im curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism American faith and American prosperity

Like so many of us McKibben grew up believingknowingthat 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 wellmeaning but not allseeing 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 youthThe Flag the Cross and the Station Wagoncould or should be reclaimed in the fight for a fairer future

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Co