The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon

Easily one of the best books I've read in the past five years. McKibben's facts are in order, but he can also tell a story, and story is one of the things we need in order to change hearts and minds. I think if I was granted to the power to make every conservative (and for that matter every liberal) understand one set of facts, one perspective, it would be the worldview laid out here. Deeply political, deeply felt, deeply if comfortably holistic, the message here is so important that our collective existence hinges on our understanding, and yet I'm not sure how optimistic I am that we will get there in the end.