“In 2013, Deborah and James Fallows launched a project to counter what the latter describes as the “big-city-centrism” of most media coverage, and they did it in a delightfully old-fashioned manner—by crisscrossing more than two dozen American towns and small cities in a single-engine propeller airplane, reporting along the way about the innovations, reinventions and attendant struggles going on outside the coastal bubble.”