It is one thing to study the fall of democracy, another to have it hit your homeland -- and yet another to raise children as it happens. The Last American Road Trip is one family's journey to the most beautiful, fascinating, and bizarre places in the US during one of its most tumultuous eras. As Kendzior works as a journalist chronicling political turmoil, she becomes determined that her young children see America before it's too late. So Kendzior, her husband, and the kids hit the road -- again and again. Starting from ...
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It is one thing to study the fall of democracy, another to have it hit your homeland -- and yet another to raise children as it happens. The Last American Road Trip is one family's journey to the most beautiful, fascinating, and bizarre places in the US during one of its most tumultuous eras. As Kendzior works as a journalist chronicling political turmoil, she becomes determined that her young children see America before it's too late. So Kendzior, her husband, and the kids hit the road -- again and again. Starting from Missouri, the family drives across America in every direction as cataclysmic events - the rise of autocracy, political and technological chaos, and the pandemic - reshape American life. They explore Route 66, national parks, historical sites, and Americana icons as Kendzior contemplates love for country in a broken heartland. Together, the family watches the landscape of the United States - physical, environmental, social, political -transform through the car window. Part memoir, part political history, The Last American Road Trip is one mother's promise to her children that their country will be there for them in the future - even though at times she struggles to believe it herself.
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This is a good book for those readers who feel something in American is slipping away forever, and they want a last look at what they love about the wide open spaces of America. Kendzior paints many touching scenes with her family taking the back roads emanating from her home in St. Louis, in the center of America. I've had occasion to see some myself, and like many, I love driving down empty highways off the beaten track. She paints many beautiful landscapes superbly, which is frequently juxtaposed to the political decay and deterioration taking place.
My only reservation is that Kendzior sometimes succumbs to excessive belief (in my view) to more extreme conspiracies. I follow pretty closely to her baseline, which is grim enough. But I'm not going to judge her harshly, we've all had a difficult time over the last years, and worse is likely to come.
