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The National Road: Dispatches From a Changing America

by Zoellner, Tom

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This collection of "eloquent essays that examine the relationship between the American landscape and the national character" serves to remind us that despite our differences we all belong to the same land (Publishers Weekly).

From the offices of small town newspapers tot he adult film sets of California, from the checkout lanes of midwestern dollar stores to the sacred sites of Mormonism, from our nation's highest peaks to the rising seawaters of pilgrim-haunted New England and to the corrupt municipalities that prey upon residents: Tom Zoellner takes to the highways and byways of a vast land in search of the soul of its people.

What does it mean when a nation accustomed to constant motion begins to settle down, when political hostility threatens unity, when a pandemic strikes, and when racial hierarchies are challenged after years of abuses? Is a shared soil enough to reinvigorate a national spirit?

By turns nostalgic and probing, incisive and enraged, Zoellner's journeys across the United States—and into our often-contradictory histories—reveal a nation divided by faith, politics, and shifting economies, but one united by a shared stake in the common land. This is both a celebration and a reckoning.
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