NATIONAL BEST SELLER For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane.
She and her husband have two sons and five grandchildren..
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.
DEBORAH Fallows is a linguist and writer who holds a Ph D in theoretical linguistics and is the author of two previous books.
For two years he was President Jimmy Carter\'s chief speechwriter.
He has won a National Book Award and a National Magazine Award.
His work has also appeared in many other magazines and as public-radio commentaries since the 1980s.
He is the author of eleven previous books.
About the Author: 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.
Our Towns is the story of their journey--and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
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.
The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves.
At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level.
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.
NATIONAL BEST SELLER For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane
