Our Towns (Signed First Edition, First Printing)

Fallows, James; Fallows, Deborah

ISBN 10: 1101871849 / ISBN 13: 9781101871843

Verlag: Pantheon, 2018

Beschreibung

Signed First Edition, First Printing of this interesting portrait of American communities in the early 21st century in which much-traveled writers and social observers James and Deborah Fallows hopscotch about the U.S. in their small planes in search of common denominators among thriving locales. Beer pong alert: craft breweries invariably water happy towns. Signed by James Fallows and Deborah Fallows on the title page. 413 pages. No sign of previous use.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 014498

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Our Towns (Signed First Edition, First Printing)
• Verlag: Pantheon
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1101871849
• ISBN-13: 9781101871843
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

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***NATIONAL BEST SELLER***

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 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 view 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

JAMES FALLOWS has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic for more than thirty-five years, reporting from China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, and across the United States. He is the author of eleven previous books. His work has also appeared in many other magazines and as public-radio commentaries since the 1980s. He has won a National Book Award and a National Magazine Award. For two years he was President Jimmy Carter’s chief speechwriter.

DEBORAH FALLOWS is a linguist and writer who holds a PhD in theoretical linguistics and is the author of two previous books. She has written for The Atlantic, National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, and The Washington Monthly, and has worked at the Pew Research Center, Oxygen Media, and Georgetown University. She and her husband have two sons and four grandchildren.