James & Deborah Fallows: "The country is better than its national government is right now."

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🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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After four years, 31 cities and about 100,000 miles in a small private plane, Deborah and James Fallows are back home with a reassured outlook on America’s future.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:04.4	Meet the press.
0:05.9	Meet the press.
0:09.1	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:11.3	My guests today are James and Deborah Fowlos.
0:13.6	Together they are the authors of a new book, Our Towns,
0:16.9	a 100,000 mile journey into the heart of America.
0:19.9	From 2013 to 2017, they flew across the United States
0:23.0	in a small private plane, stopping at towns repeatedly
0:26.2	to hear from Americans learning what worked
0:28.4	and what doesn't, far from the policy debates
0:30.6	in Washington or on TV.
0:32.8	It sounds like the ultimate road trip,
0:34.3	but for the fallows, it was a call back to an earlier book
0:37.4	that James wrote when he and Deborah were based in China.
0:40.3	And throughout their new book, they refer back
0:42.0	to their time during China's boom years
0:44.1	as a way to compare and contrast the United States.
0:47.0	Deborah and James Fowlos, welcome to 1947.
0:49.1	Thank you, Jack.
0:49.9	Thank you, Chuck.
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