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In Country of Exiles, William Leach, whose Land of Desire was a finalist for the National Book Award, explores the troubling effects of our national love affair with mobility. He shows us how the impulse to pull up stakes and find a new frontier has always battled with the need to put down roots, and how a new cosmopolitanism has seized our national identity.
Leach takes us across a featureless America, where strip malls homogenize a once varied and majestic landscape, and where casinos displace the Native American spiritual connection to the land. He shows us a culture where everyone, from CEOs to office temps, abandons the notion of company loyalty, and where rootless academics posit a world without borders. With compelling vision and insight, Leach reveals the profound but often hidden impact of America's disintegrating sense of place on our national and individual psyche.
Leach takes us across a featureless America, where strip malls homogenize a once varied and majestic landscape, and where casinos displace the Native American spiritual connection to the land. He shows us a culture where everyone, from CEOs to office temps, abandons the notion of company loyalty, and where rootless academics posit a world without borders. With compelling vision and insight, Leach reveals the profound but often hidden impact of America's disintegrating sense of place on our national and individual psyche.
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"Clearly written, marked by sobriety and responsible scholarship, free of hyperbole and nostalgia, Country of Exiles sparkles with fresh and penetrating insights into the deepening cultural crisis of our time."--Eugene Genovese
"This book is very important. It ought to be read by tens of thousands. As everything important that is written or said, it reminds (rather than instructs) men and women of great and grave matters that they may already know but that they do not understand sufficiently until reading or hearing this particular author.
"William Leach is a true conservative--unlike 90% of our 'conservative' politicians and 80% of our 'conservative' intellectuals." --John Lukacs, author of The Hitler of History
"William Leach rides across America like Henry Thoreau with a bad case of road rage. I read his book in one sitting. Wise, passionate, and profoundly disturbing, Country of Exiles should be read by anyone who cares about the American landscape--before it's too late."--Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic
"A provocative discussion of how the globalized economy has loosened the ties that bind us, Country of Exiles is part reporting, part polemic, always interesting."--Joan Didion
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"This book is very important. It ought to be read by tens of thousands. As everything important that is written or said, it reminds (rather than instructs) men and women of great and grave matters that they may already know but that they do not understand sufficiently until reading or hearing this particular author.
"William Leach is a true conservative--unlike 90% of our 'conservative' politicians and 80% of our 'conservative' intellectuals." --John Lukacs, author of The Hitler of History
"William Leach rides across America like Henry Thoreau with a bad case of road rage. I read his book in one sitting. Wise, passionate, and profoundly disturbing, Country of Exiles should be read by anyone who cares about the American landscape--before it's too late."--Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic
"A provocative discussion of how the globalized economy has loosened the ties that bind us, Country of Exiles is part reporting, part polemic, always interesting."--Joan Didion
"Brilliant. . . . Leach [is] one of the most creative and critical historians of
American culture and social history." --The San Diego Union-Tribune
"Thoughtful, well-written, well-argued." --Choice
"Quite persuasive." --Times Literary Supplement
"A forcefully argued, gracefully written requiem for our country's vanishing attachment to specific places." --Salon
"[Leach's] analysis is eye-opening. . . . Perhaps the most searching and thoughtful examination of the specific causes that may underlie the current prevalence of incivility." --The Christian Science Monitor
American culture and social history." --The San Diego Union-Tribune
"Thoughtful, well-written, well-argued." --Choice
"Quite persuasive." --Times Literary Supplement
"A forcefully argued, gracefully written requiem for our country's vanishing attachment to specific places." --Salon
"[Leach's] analysis is eye-opening. . . . Perhaps the most searching and thoughtful examination of the specific causes that may underlie the current prevalence of incivility." --The Christian Science Monitor
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