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

Description

For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-engine prop airplane. While 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 views 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.