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The national road dispatches from a changing America

"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: w...

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Main Author: Zoellner, Tom (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, 2020.
Edition:First hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Roads > United States.
United States > Economic conditions > 21st century.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
Migration, Internal > United States.
United States > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Social change > United States.
Essays.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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