{"product_id":"2940169269390","title":"Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe America they saw is acutely conscious of its problemsamp;mdash;from economic dislocation to the opioid scourgeamp;mdash;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. \u003ci\u003eOur Towns\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of their journeyamp;mdash;and an account of a country busy remaking itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101844750576,"sku":"2940169269390","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169269390_p0.jpg?v=1763677566","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169269390","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}