{"product_id":"our-towns-james-fallows-9780525432449","title":"Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - \"James and Deborah Fallows have always moved to where history is being made.... They have an excellent sense of where world-shaping events are taking place at any moment\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e - The basis for the HBO documentary streaming on HBO Max\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTheir 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. \u003ci\u003eOur Towns\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of their journey--and an account of a country busy remaking itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Fallows, Deborah Fallows\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0525432442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525432449\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.10d","brand":"James Fallows","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050688934143,"sku":"9780525432449","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88807d9d-eed6-4f97-a059-672fd9defce6.jpg?v=1685008672","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/our-towns-james-fallows-9780525432449","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}