
The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon
A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
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Bill McKibben
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2022 New Yorker Best Books of the Year, Long-listed
"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 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. He finds that he is not without hope. 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.
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Reseñas de la Crítica
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—Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-8)
“Plainspoken, direct, conversational, and inspiring, Bill McKibben offers us generous insight into who he is and how he has been shaped by his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs. We see through inner and outer choices, struggles, and influences, why one of the world's most effective and humble leaders in the climate justice movement committed himself to an activist's life on behalf of a warming planet. The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon is more than a memoir, it is a bow to the power of social justice movements and a smart and savvy historical reflection on what has brought us to this crucible moment of climate collapse. Bill McKibben is an every-day hero who continues to show us not only what is possible, but necessary to our survival, the survival of our democracy, and all life in the places we call home.“ —Terry Tempest Williams, author of Erosion: Essays of Undoing
“What went wrong with America in the 1970s? In this searching book, Bill McKibben wrestles with a generation that lost its way, and why, and how to find the way back.”
—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States
A constructive and educational look back on the reader’s life
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A plea for community in an age of idealism.
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Last chance for Baby Boomers!
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A story for all to hear
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But still, I recommend reading this book. Unfortunately, those who might benefit most from the enlightenment it offers likely won’t read it.
Hard to take - but many should read
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Elders Take Notice
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Thank you, Bill.
The Flag, The Cross, and The Station Wagon
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In this sensitive memoir he mourns the passing of the Small Town Values that he grew up with in Lexington, Massachusetts. But it is not the mawkish account you might expect from a Right Wing Politician inventing a clarion call to “Bring back the Good Old Days”, Rather it asks important questions about how we got here to a place whose citizens worship Ignorance of the dangers of Climate Change, “Progress”, Growth at all costs, Malls, MegaChurches, and McMansions.
He points to Right-Turns the country took away from the Carter Seventies to the Reagan Eighties and some of the seminal speeches and political stances, particularly a SCOTUS Decision by Justice Lewis Powell that revolutionized changes in Big Business, Religion, and Politics motivations in a dangerous direction.
This last made a powerful impact on me. Every Baby Boomer should read this book.
Four Stars ****
An Unreconstructed Liberal looks back
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Mind blowing
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Heartbreakng
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