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It was a chance, as James Fallows, the former chief speechwriter for Jimmy Carter and journalist formerly based in Washington, Texas, and several countries in Asia, put it in the Atlantic in 2019, to visit places generally uncovered by the national media except during elections or times of crisis. The multimedia project would “report on how schools, businesses, families and civic life were faring ‘out there’”. Over four years of criss-crossing the country, the experiment morphed from an investigation economic adaptation to a larger fascination with local endeavors, solutions and perseverance – a phenomenon, or at least a collection of observations and patterns, relayed in the couple’s 2018 book Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America, and an HBO documentary adaptation, Our Towns, released this week. “As things got going it was just so fascinating,” James Fallows told the Guardian, “and so dense with experience and surp

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