[DOWNLOAD] "Country of Exiles" by William R. Leach ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Country of Exiles
- Author : William R. Leach
- Release Date : January 12, 1999
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,History,United States,Sociology,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2522 KB
Description
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.