
Our Towns
A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
E P Dutton & Co Inc (Publisher)
Published on 5. February 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-525-43244-9 (ISBN)
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment" —The New York Times • The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO Max
For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is 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 journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is 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 journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
302 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-525-43244-9 (9780525432449)
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Persons
James Fallows and Deborah Fallows
Content
Authors’ Note
Introduction: 2017: A Last Trip West
2013
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Rapid City, South Dakota
Holland, Michigan
Burlington, Vermont
Eastport, Maine
2014
Greenville, South Carolina
St. Marys, Georgia
Columbus, Mississippi
Caddo Lake, Louisiana-Texas
In the Air
Columbus, Ohio
Louisville, Kentucky
Allentown, Pennsylvania
In the Air
Duluth, Minnesota
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Charleston, West Virginia
2015
In the Air
Guymon, Oklahoma
Ajo, Arizona
San Bernardino, California
Riverside, California
Redlands, California
Fresno, California
Winters, California
Bend, Oregon
Redmond and Prineville, Oregon
Chester, Montana
The American Prairie Reserve, Montana
2016
Dodge City, Kansas
Garden City and Spearville, Kansas
Erie, Pennsylvania
What We Saw and What We Learned
10½ Signs of Civic Success
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: 2017: A Last Trip West
2013
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Rapid City, South Dakota
Holland, Michigan
Burlington, Vermont
Eastport, Maine
2014
Greenville, South Carolina
St. Marys, Georgia
Columbus, Mississippi
Caddo Lake, Louisiana-Texas
In the Air
Columbus, Ohio
Louisville, Kentucky
Allentown, Pennsylvania
In the Air
Duluth, Minnesota
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Charleston, West Virginia
2015
In the Air
Guymon, Oklahoma
Ajo, Arizona
San Bernardino, California
Riverside, California
Redlands, California
Fresno, California
Winters, California
Bend, Oregon
Redmond and Prineville, Oregon
Chester, Montana
The American Prairie Reserve, Montana
2016
Dodge City, Kansas
Garden City and Spearville, Kansas
Erie, Pennsylvania
What We Saw and What We Learned
10½ Signs of Civic Success
Afterword
Acknowledgments