The Hundredth Meridian

to extinction, but that of humanity andrnthe civilization it has created—especiallyrnin America. As Bishop points out,rnAbbey's interest was not in saving thernworld (which he regarded as unsalvageable,rnsordid, and barbaric) but in savingrnAmerica, a special land inhabited by thernchosen people who had created forrnthemselves the Constitution and . . .