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“Shifting and magnificently well-researched…Janesville joins an evergrowing family of books about the evisceration from the working class in the United about Janesville: An American Tale States. What units it apart may be the elegance of its storytelling and evaluation.” -The NY Times

A Washington Post reporter’s intimate account from the fallout in the closing of a General Motors’ assembly flower in Janesville, Wisconsin-Paul Ryan’s hometown-and a larger story of the hollowing from the American middle class.

This is actually the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills-but it’s not the familiar tale. Many observers record the immediate shock of vanished careers, but few stay around long enough to notice what happens next, when a community having a can-do spirit tries to pick itself up.

Pulitzer Prize champion Amy Goldstein provides spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin where in fact the nation’s oldest working General Motors plant shut down amid the Great Tough economy, two times before Xmas of 2008. Right now, with intelligence, sympathy, and understanding into what connects and divides people in an period of economic upheaval, she makes one of America’s biggest political issues human. Her reporting takes the reader deep into the lives of autoworkers, teachers, bankers, politicians, and work re-trainers showing why it’s so difficult in the twenty-first hundred years to recreate a wholesome, prosperous working course.

For this isn’t just a Janesville story or a Midwestern story. It’s an American story.