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Storm Lake : Change, Resilience, and Hope in America's Heartland by Art Cullen (2020, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100525558896
ISBN-139780525558897
eBay Product ID (ePID)9038720394
Product Key Features
Book TitleStorm Lake : Change, Resilience, and Hope in America's Heartland
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPublic Policy / Environmental Policy, American Government / State, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year2020
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science
AuthorArt Cullen
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight9.9 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal071.77/18
SynopsisIn this timely book, Cullen describes the dramatic change in politics, agriculture, the environment, and immigration to Storm Lake over the course of his career. With typical Iowan optimism and stubbornness, Art Cullen investigates whether Iowa is a bellwether for America, a nostalgic mirage from The Music Man, or a harbinger of America s future. The result is an unsentimental ode to America's heartland - a story of reinvention and resilience, environmental and economic struggle, and surprising diversity and hope., "A reminder that even the smallest newspapers can hold the most powerful among us accountable."-- The New York Times Book Review Watch the documentary Storm Lake on PBS. Iowa plays an outsize role in national politics. Iowa introduced Barack Obama and voted bigly for Donald Trump. But is it a bellwether for America, a harbinger of its future? Art Cullen's answer is complicated and honest. In truth, Iowa is losing ground. The Trump trade wars are hammering farmers and manufacturers. Health insurance premiums and drug prices are soaring. That's what Iowans are dealing with, and the problems they face are the problems of the heartland. In this candid and timely book, Art Cullen--the Storm Lake Times newspaperman who won a Pulitzer Prize for taking on big corporate agri-industry and its poisoning of local rivers--describes how the heartland has changed dramatically over his career. In a story where politics, agriculture, the environment, and immigration all converge, Cullen offers an unsentimental ode to rural America and to the resilient people of a vibrant community of fifteen thousand in Northwest Iowa, as much survivors as their town., "A reminder that even the smallest newspapers can hold the most powerful among us accountable." --The New York Times Book Review " The Storm Lake Times has an] unwavering commitment to elevating the community... Not the enemy of the people but a voice for the people." -- Beto O'Rourke, Democratic Presidential Candidate, via Instagram From a Pulitzer-winning newspaperman, an unsentimental ode to America's heartland--a story of reinvention and resilience, environmental and economic struggle, and surprising diversity and hope. When The Storm Lake Times , a tiny Iowa twice-weekly, won a Pulitzer Prize for taking on big corporate agri-industry for poisoning the local rivers and lake, it was a coup on many counts: a strike for the well being of a rural community; and a triumph for that endangered species, a family-run rural news weekly. In this candid and timely book, Cullen describes how the heartland has changed dramatically over his career, as seen from the vantage point of a farming and meatpacking town of 15,000 in Northwest Iowa. Politics, agriculture, the environment, and immigration are all themes in Storm Lake , a chronicle of a resilient newspaper, as much a survivor as its town. Iowa plays an outsize role in national politics. Iowa introduced Barack Obama and voted bigly for Donald Trump. Is the state leaning blue, red, or purple in the lead-up to 2020? Is it a bellwether for America? A nostalgic mirage from The Music Man , or a harbinger of America's future? Cullen's answer is complicated and honest--but with optimism and the stubbornness that is still the state's, and his, dominant quality.
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