The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is--And Isn't

by Steven Conn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226826902
• ISBN13: 9780226826905
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"