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One of the New Yorker''s Best Books of 2022

Bill McKibbenaward-winning author, activist, educatoris 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 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 well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and i

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      Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
      Publication Date: 31/05/2022
      ISBN13: 9781250823601, 978-1250823601
      ISBN10: 1250823609

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      One of the New Yorker''s Best Books of 2022

      Bill McKibbenaward-winning author, activist, educatoris 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 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 well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and i

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