We have an obligation to the truth, for our families, our children, and our country. But it comes at a cost. Such is the message in Sarah Kendzior’s nuanced, poignant and frequently heartbreaking The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir. Over the years, I have sought out authors who understood their own times. In the process, I have read All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid T…