Wow, what a good book and really eye opening. I grew up in a small town--midwest vs author in northwest but able to see a lot of what he/they are talking about. He looks at families that grew up around him, blue collar types and saw what became of them and then their children and grand children. This is small town but more factory than agriculture there and when those blue collar jobs left, the people still there struggled with work and an identity. Many were already hard drinkers and stayed that way and then drugs became the norm especially for the kids. The authors went to different areas of the country too and saw similar things. Book presented the bad or awful but also tried to show what could be done and throughout mentioned things that would made things better--things that Canada and Europe are doing but not the US. This is one of those books that you wish more people would read. Maybe they wouldn't agree with everything but still eye opening to the problems.
There are no WL for this book and no copies in system but this is one that I will save to loan out to friends. One of my top books of the year.
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