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Can I read Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America on EtoBox?

Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America by Fallows, James & Fallows, Deborah is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America about?

A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts. For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, they have met hundreds of civic leaders, workers, immigrants, educators, environmentalists, artists, public servants, librarians, business people, city planners, students, and entrepreneurs to take the pulse and understand the prospects of places that usually draw notice only after a disaster or during 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, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction...

Who reads Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Fallows, James & Fallows, Deborah
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
2018
Language
EN
Category
history
Subjects
History, Humanities
Rating
4.3 / 5 (520 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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