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A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention occurring in America, town by town and generally away of view from the nationwide 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 within a single-engine prop airplane. Going to dozens of cities, they have fulfilled hundreds of civic market leaders, workers, immigrants, educators, about Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Trip in to the Heart of America environmentalists, artists, public servants, librarians, people, town planners, students, and entrepreneurs to take the pulse and understand the prospects of places that always draw notice only after a disaster or during a political campaign.

The America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems-from economic dislocation towards 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 frequently arisen from the local level. The Fallowses explain America in the center of among these innovative waves. Their watch of the country is as complicated and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the power, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making issues better. Our Cities is the story of their journey-and an account of a country occupied remaking itself.