Divine Magnetic Lands: A Journey in America

But Divine Magnetic Lands is more than a political tract (though, God knows, the statistics O'Grady quotes to demonstrate the despoliation Bush and his cronies have visited upon the land they purport to love stick in the memory as well as the craw), more than a prophetic fulmination. As its Whitmanesque title suggests, it celebrates the seductive allure of the bedrock: its trees and birds, its show more mountains and rivers, its deserts and canyon, its great plains and prairies, its cornucopia of marvels which stretch from sea to shining sea. Beneath the smell of incense, there's more than an earthy whiff of pantheism. show less