The national road: dispatches from a changing America
(Book)
"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 roofof 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"--
Notes
Zoellner, T. (2020). The national road: dispatches from a changing America. Berkeley, California, Counterpoint.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Zoellner, Tom. 2020. The National Road: Dispatches From a Changing America. Berkeley, California, Counterpoint.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Zoellner, Tom, The National Road: Dispatches From a Changing America. Berkeley, California, Counterpoint, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Zoellner, Tom. The National Road: Dispatches From a Changing America. Berkeley, California, Counterpoint, 2020.
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