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All across the
country, in smaller towns outside the media spotlight, a new America is
being built - one that is innovative, compromise-minded, optimistic, and
working toward practical solutions to the problems of this age.
This is the site for the people, communities, and organizations creating America's future, right now.
The Story of a Journey, and of an America That Works
Since 2013, Deborah and James Fallows
have traveled to small communities in every part of the country that
have faced economic shocks, political crises, or other serious
hardships. Each place they went, they talked with teachers, business
creators, mayors, religious leaders, students, artists and architects,
librarians, and others involved in shaping their community's future.
As they traveled across the country, at
low altitude in a little propeller airplane, they saw the patterns of
river and hill that explain the pattern of American settlement. On the
ground, they saw the emerging pattern of American reinvention - through
the stories collected here
“In the tradition of John Steinbeck
and Studs Terkel, the Fallows have crisscrossed the country in search of
the extraordinary strength and character of ordinary people and places.
What they’ve found--in towns we know and others off the beaten path—should give us all great hope for the future.”
—California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.
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