Janesville: An American Story Audiobook (Free)

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“Shifting and magnificently well-researched…Janesville joins a growing family of books about the evisceration from the working class in the United about Janesville: An American Tale States. What pieces it apart is the class of its storytelling and analysis.” -The New York Times

A Washington Post reporter’s intimate account from the fallout from your closing of an over-all Motors’ assembly place in Janesville, Wisconsin-Paul Ryan’s hometown-and a more substantial story from the hollowing from the American middle income.

This is actually the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills-but it’s not the familiar tale. Many observers record the immediate surprise of vanished careers, but few stay around lengthy enough to notice what happens following, whenever a community having a can-do soul tries to choose itself up.

Pulitzer Prize champion Amy Goldstein provides spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin where in fact the nation’s oldest operating General Motors flower shut down in the midst of the Great Downturn, two times before Xmas of 2008. Now, with intelligence, sympathy, and understanding into what connects and divides people in an era of economic upheaval, she makes among America’s biggest political issues individual. Her reporting will take the audience deep into the lives of autoworkers, educators, bankers, politicians, and work re-trainers to show why it’s so hard in the twenty-first hundred years to recreate a wholesome, prosperous working course.

For this is not just a Janesville story or a Midwestern tale. It’s an American story.