How America is Putting Itself Back Together by James and Deborah Fallows.

Published in The Atlantic, March 2016.

The Tease.

“Most Americans believe the country is going to hell. They’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal – and about how the Second Gilded Age might end.” This is a great encouragement to those wanting to feel good about small-town America.

The Conclusion.

“James and Deborah Fallows made extended visits to two dozen cities, and shorter stops in another two dozen” from 2013 to 2015. He has been on Charlie Rose and other television programs discussing his findings and expressing his optimism that once you turn off the “talking heads”, once you get out of the Beltway and the political-speak spewing from the Potomac region, America is a place of investment, re- investment and resurgence, especially in small cities and towns.