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Champion of the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Reserve of the entire year Award! A Washington Post reporter's romantic account of the fallout from the shutting of an over-all Motors assembly seed in Janesville, Wisconsin - Paul Ryan's hometown - and a more substantial account of the hollowing of the American middle income. This is actually the story of what happens to an commercial town in the American heartland when its manufacturer stills - but it's not the familiar tale. Most observers track record the immediate great shock of vanished jobs, but few stay around long enough to note what happens next, when a community with a can-do nature tries to choose itself up. Pulitzer Prize success Amy Goldstein has spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin, where in fact the nation's oldest operating Standard Motors plant turn off in the midst of the Great Downturn, two days and nights before Holiday of 2008. Now, with intelligence, sympathy, and information into what connects and divides people within an era of economic upheaval, she makes one of America's biggest politics issues individuals. Her reporting takes the listener deep in to the lives of autoworkers, educators, bankers, politicians, and job retrainers to show why it's so hard in the 21st century to re-create a wholesome, prosperous working category. For this is not just a Janesville account or a Midwestern account. It's an American account.
