Our Towns : : a 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America

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Call Number: 306.097 Fa, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Socioeconomics / Fallows, James
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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"A unique, revelatory portrait of small-town America: the activities, changes, and events that shape this mostly unseen part of our national landscape, and the issues and concerns that matter to the ordinary Americans who make these towns their home. For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-prop airplane, visiting small cities and meeting civic leaders, factory workers, recent immigrants, and young entrepreneurs, seeking to take the pulse and discern the outlook of an America that is unreported and unobserved by the national media. Attending town meetings, breakfasts at local coffee shops, and events at local libraries, they have listened to the challenges and problems that define American lives today. Our Towns is the story of their journey--an account of their visits to twenty-one cities and towns: the individuals they met, the stories they heard, and their portrait of the many different faces of the American future"-- Provided by publisher.

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Skip It submitted by ballsr on August 9, 2018, 1:17pm Okay, I studied too much urban economics and urban sociology to have a clear head on this. (This is Ann Arbor. You expected something else?) But this book is mainly cherry-picked towns (Holland, MI is hardly illustrative of Michigan), described in anecdotes that conveniently support the conclusions the authors wanted to reach. There is no acceptable qualitative research method on display here, nor serious consideration of other points of view. That was likely not the authors' intent so there is little weight to their conclusions. Then again, given the prominence of their private airplane on the book jacket, this was possibly just a vehicle to write off some expensive traveling. Motoring with Mohammed (E. Hansen) is a better travel-book choice, IMHO.