Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America Audiobook (Free)

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A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention occurring in the us, town by town and generally away of view of the nationwide media. A realistically positive and provocative look at of the united states between its coasts.

Going back five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America within a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, they have met hundreds of civic market leaders, workers, immigrants, educators, about Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America environmentalists, performers, public servants, librarians, business people, city planners, learners, and entrepreneurs to take the pulse and understand the leads of places that always draw notice just after a tragedy or throughout a political campaign.

The America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems-from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge-but itis also crafting solutions, using a practical-minded determination at dramatic chances using the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on the nationwide level, reform options have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses explain America in the middle of among these creative waves. Their look at of the country is as complicated and contradictory as America itself, but it addittionally reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, as well as the determination of several who are amid making factors better. Our Cities is the tale of their journey-and a merchant account of a nation active remaking itself.