Route 66 Looking-glass: Looking forward and back in the 1960’s (Open Road Open Book)

In Route 66 Looking-glass Mid (Lacy) Lindbloom and husband Oscar–with grown children (mostly) on their own–assess their life’s successes and plans for the future. The mid-1960’s is a time of turmoil for the nation, though, and they worry that the American definition of success has been constricted to material prosperity. The dream of “the Mother Road” appears illusory when reflected against the realities of injustice in the nation and of war abroad.