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“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…
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“Why Young Americans Are Increasingly Moving to Small Towns”
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“Co-authoring a travel memoir can be tricky, but the Fallows team pulls it off like the professionals they are.”
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“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…”
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“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.”
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“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…
The Reinvention of America
Americans don’t realize how fast the country is moving toward becoming a better version of itself.
Featured in the Erie Times-News
“Much of what Fallows covers in The Atlantic is prescriptive for, and increasingly descriptive of, Erie. In fact, James and Deborah Fallows ended their travels in our town, which is…
Featured in The Incline from Pittsburgh
“Despite the “bleak trench warfare of national politics” the future of the U.S. is full of possibilities, Fallows wrote including the example of talent dispersal — a.k.a. people spreading out…