The national road : dispatches from a changing America / Tom Zoellner.
"The National Road is a collection of essays about American places, each dealing with contentious matters: religion, politics, sex, race, poverty, loss and the stubborn persistence of national pride, despite abundant reasons for cynicism. An important question lies at the heart of this collection: what does it mean to "belong" in America in the midst of an era when rootedness to a particular piece of ground means less than at any time during our history? These essays cover a wide range of subjects: the changing geography of pornography, the proliferation of "dollar stores," the unique pain of losing a house, the joy and futility of cross-country drives, the ways that certain town governments can turn vicious, the quest to stand upon the topographical roof of every state, a journey into the wilderness to find the body of a notorious killer, a unique examination of the most "American" major religion in the gloom past midnight, a personal eulogy for the metropolitan daily newspaper. From their particular angles, they all examine changing definitions of this shared soil. In a time of collective unease, the American land - this magnificent 3.7 million square miles -- is the lowest denominator of what we have in common"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781640092907
- ISBN: 1640092900
- ISBN: 9781640094932
- ISBN: 1640094938
- Physical Description: 263 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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| General Note: | Publisher, dates, and paging may vary. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-263). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Your land -- Mormon historical sites at night -- Drive -- Spillville -- The national road -- The whole hoop of the world -- Late city final -- Villages -- The valley -- Welcome to Dirtytown -- Searchlight -- King Philip's shadow -- Home ground -- At the end there will be strangers. |
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