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02785aam a22004458i 4500 001 DA4D2A9C0F7411EBB906723149ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201016010011 008 200406t20202020cau 000 0 eng 010 $a 2020001055 020 $a 1640092900 020 $a 9781640092907 035 $a (OCoLC)1139252194 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d HBP $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HE355 $b .Z64 2020 082 00 $a 973 $2 23 100 1 $a Zoellner, Tom, $e author. 245 14 $a The national road : $b dispatches from a changing America / $c Tom Zoellner. 246 30 $a Dispatches from a changing America 264 1 $a Berkeley : $b Counterpoint Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 263 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Roads $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Economic conditions $y 21st century. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Migration, Internal $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Social life and customs $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Social change $z United States. 941 $a 7 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20240809015040.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909062313.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722064115.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20210612010422.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20210203010730.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210105034719.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20201016010125.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DA4D2A9C0F7411EBB906723149ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search