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, Eric Jason Martin

eAudio - 2022

"Narrator Eric Jason Martin adds gusto to this mini-memoir, which spans much of author Bill McKibben's lifetime."-AudioFile on The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon 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... more