22: Author Deborah Fallows and Journalist James Fallows Examine the Pandemic's Effect on Small Town America
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
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🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Author Deborah Fallows and journalist James Fallows spent years traveling to small cities and towns outside America's major population centers in order to research their national bestseller "Our Towns A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America." In following up with those communities recently, they are able to share how individual leaders and local groups have stepped up to deal with the growing coronavirus outbreak in spite of the lack of guidance from higher levels of government. Al and James also ponder what a candidate like Joe Biden can do in a situation as dire as this.
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