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title: "Janesville: An American Story"
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# Janesville: An American Story

**Brand:** amy goldstein
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        			&#x201C;Goldstein is a gifted storyteller, and Janesville is a raw, beautiful story, one that sheds needed light on a country searching for some pathway to the future.&#x201D; &#x2014;J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy&#x201C;The most illuminating business book of the year.... If you really want to understand what&#x2019;s going on in today&#x2019;s real economy &#x2014; beyond the headlines about new stock-market highs, tax policy or the latest list of billionaires &#x2014; spend some time with this true tale.&#x201D; &#x2014;Andrew Ross Sorkin,&#xA0;The&#xA0;New York Times&#x201C;Janesville is haunting in part because it&#x2019;s a success story....&#xA0;One is awed by the dignity and levelheadedness of its protagonists, who seem to represent the best of America.... Goldstein is a talented storyteller, and we root for her characters as, moment by moment, they try their hardest.&#x201D; &#x2014;The New Yorker&#x201C;A superb feat of reportage, Janesville combines a heart-rending account of the implications of the closing on GM workers and their families with a sobering analysis of the response of the public and private sectors. The book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the economy of the Rust Belt &#x2014; and its implications for America&#x2019;s once-proud middle class.&#x201D; &#x2014;The&#xA0;Philadelphia Inquirer&#x201C;We&#x2019;ve been hearing a lot since the November 2016 election about the press missing The Story of a middle class losing ground, hope, and heart. But it turns out that Amy Goldstein, one of our finest reporters, was on it all along. Her vivid portrait of a quintessential American town in distress affirms Eudora Welty&#x2019;s claim that &apos;one place understood helps us understand all places better.&apos;&#x201D; &#xA0;&#x2014;Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize&#x2013;winning author of&#xA0;Carry Me Home&#x201C;Ms. Goldstein&#x2019;s book takes its place alongside those other essential tomes of the Trump era, J.D. Vance&#x2019;s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis and Joan Williams&#x2019; White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America.&#x201D; &#x2014;Financial Times&#x201C;Energetically reported and sympathetically narrated.... The story of ordinary people, how they cope or don&#x2019;t cope with a largely, though not entirely, unexpected economic disaster.&#x201D; &#x2014;The Wall Street Journal&#x201C;Goldstein gives the reader a gripping account of the GM layoff, the real loss it caused and the victims&#x2019; heroic resilience in adapting to that loss. By the end of this moving book, I wanted her to write a sequel on what might have been done to prevent the damage in the first place.&#x201D; &#x2014;The Washington Post&#x201C;Reflecting on the state of the white working class, J.D. Vance&#x2019;s&#xA0;Hillbilly Elegy&#xA0;focuses on cultural decay and the individual, whereas Amy Goldstein&#x2019;s&#xA0;Janesville&#xA0;emphasizes economic collapse and the community.&#xA0; To understand how we have gotten to America&#x2019;s current malaise, both are essential reading.&#x201D; &#x2014;Robert D. Putnam, New York Times&#xA0;bestselling author of&#xA0;Bowling Alone and Our Kids&#x201C;Goldstein provides a welcome addition to the conversation on the broken social contract. Janesville is a town like countless others, and this book offers a useful cautionary tale for public officials, sociologists, economists, and engaged citizens alike.&#x201D; &#x2014;The Boston Globe
				    	
					
        		
        		
        	
        
        	
        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        			Amy Goldstein has been a staff writer for thirty years at The Washington Post, where much of her work has focused on social policy. Among her awards, she shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She has been a fellow at Harvard University at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Janesville: An American Story is her first book. She lives in Washington, DC.

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