Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America

Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America

***NATIONAL BEST SELLER***

A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts.

For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, they have met hundreds of civic leaders, workers, immigrants, educators, environmentalists, artists, public servants, librarians, business people, city planners, students, and entrepreneurs to take the pulse and understand the prospects of places that usually draw notice only after a disaster or during a political campaign.

The America they saw is acutely conscious of its problemsâ€”from economic dislocation to the opioid scourgeâ€”but itis also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journeyâ€”and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
Country USA
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber YES46211085
ReleaseDate 2018-05-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101871843

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	YES46211085
ReleaseDate	2018-05-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781101871843