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“Our Towns is admittedly an anecdotal analysis. But the Fallows’ on-and-off journeys between 2012 and 2017, when they studied more than two dozen communities in so-called flyover country by flying…
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Interviewed by Len Edgerly
Len Edgerly interviews James and Deborah Fallows, authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America.
Featured by the Erie Reader
“An impulse for soon-to-be readers clutching a copy of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America will be to wonder whether they’ve visited or lived where James…
Featured on Fox News Radio
“James & Deborah Fallows,joined Brian Kilmeade to discuss their book “Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America” which chronicles their journey visiting small towns in the heart…
Guest Writers on TIME.com
“Why Young Americans Are Increasingly Moving to Small Towns”
Featured on BookPage
“Co-authoring a travel memoir can be tricky, but the Fallows team pulls it off like the professionals they are.”
Featured by CNN Money
“With Comcast thinking about a bid for 21CF, Disney is about to report earnings… With primaries in several states, James Fallows is here with some advice for reporters…”
Featured on National Review
“Many of the places they visited faced economic challenges, but they also met civic leaders and business owners who were revitalizing places with creative plans and new job opportunities.”
Featured on Vox
“Jim and Deborah Fallows recommend 6 books that depict “the heart of America”. And most of them were written before 1900.”
Featured on The Ezra Klein Show
“They came to believe that the story America is telling about itself to itself — a story of national decline, of bitter political polarization, of rural resentment and coastal elitism…
CBS Sunday Morning Cover Story
Here’s a segment from reporter Lee Cowan, producer Mark Hudspeth, and their colleagues at CBS Sunday Morning.
The ‘Our Towns’ Saga, on CBS Sunday Morning
On Tuesday of this coming week, May 8, the book that my wife, Deb, and I have been working on for many years will officially be published. On Tuesday of…
Featured in the Buffalo Rex
“Now comes veteran journalist James Fallows, writing in the May issue of The Atlantic and offering hope for the country. He and his wife, Deb, recently traveled the U.S. talking…
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For more than four years, journalists James and Deborah Fallows traveled the country in a single-engine prop plane to learn from Americans in smaller communities. The married duo visited places…
Featured on Slate
“James and Deborah Fallows traveled around the country to see how people are doing in their lives—and are feeling oddly optimistic.”
Featured in the Magnolia Reporter
“Fallows has launched a series of reports on the theme, “Can America Put Itself Back Together?” Fallows and his wife visited – and continue to visit — dozens of cities and…