![]() ![]() By the time John Lennon sang, in 1970, “God is a concept / by which we measure our pain,” he was nondenominationally describing our metaphysical condition, but he was also dismantling a myth that sought to bind one American to another, one which, as never before, was tearing us apart.Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. It was first announced on November 13, 2020, by Franzens publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus kindergartners of the 1960s became the first generation of American public-school children to whom it would be unknown not to recite, every morning, a pledge overseen by a creator, children whose every nickel saved or squandered on bubble gum and Creamsicles or, later, prostitutes and bags of pot, would be underwritten by an implicitly Christian Lord. Crossroads: A Novel is the sixth novel by American author Jonathan Franzen, published on October 5, 2021.It is a family saga set during the 1970s and centers on the Hildebrandt family in the fictional small town of New Prospect, Illinois. currency minted or printed thereafter would feature, prominently, our theistic motto. In 1954, Congress passed a bipartisan amendment to the 1942 wartime flag code that added two words to our existing pledge of allegiance, our “nation indivisible” seeing “under God” inserted between them in 1955, Congress unanimously voted to replace our de facto motto, E pluribus unum-Out of many, one-with “In God We Trust” and in 1956, legislated that every piece of U.S. Across three years in the Cold War ’50s, God, as never before, became part of the grammar of American daily life. ![]()
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