Free Download The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn't (Audiobook)
English | February 27, 2024 | ASIN: B0CVJCKR4B | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 1m | 557 MB
Author: Steven Conn | Narrator: Tom Perkins
A "piercing, unsentimental" (New Yorker) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural American crisis.
It seems everyone has an opinion about rural America. Is it gripped in a tragic decline? Or is it on the cusp of a glorious revival? Is it the key to understanding America today? Steven Conn argues that we're missing the real question: Is rural America even a thing? No, says Conn, who believes we see only what we want to see in the lands beyond the suburbs-fantasies about moral (or backward) communities, simpler (or repressive) living, and what it means to be authentically (or wrongheadedly) American. If we want to build a better future, Conn argues, we must accept that these visions don't exist and never did.
In The Lies of the Land, Conn shows that rural America-so often characterized as in crisis or in danger of being left behind-has actually been at the center of modern American history, shaped by the same forces as everywhere else in the country: militarization, industrialization, corporatization, and suburbanization. Examining each of these forces in turn, Conn invites us to dispense with the lies and half-truths we've believed about rural America and to pursue better solutions to the very real challenges shared all across our nation.
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