He ends with a plea to his fellow boomers who 'have the chance to partially redeem some sense of our history as Americans. The final chapter pins the tail on the donkey, our nation's prosperous boomer generation ('the first generation to leave the world a worse place than we found it'), who now must pay for the epic deficits created during the forty-year Reagan wrong-way revolution. “McKibben's formative experiences, described so elegantly here, led him to devote himself to 'a life fighting battles that can't be won.' But he will not quit. “We do inhabit the same world, after all, and to see it for a while through Bill McKibben’s eyes is good medicine.“ - First Things Reviews BookĮxcerpts About the Author Reviews Praise for The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon 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. 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. And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth.īut 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.Īnd he is curious: What the hell happened? As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing-knowing-that the United States was the greatest country on earth.
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