The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened McKibben Bill

One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 So FarBill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. "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.

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 He sang "Kumbaya" at church.