Storm Lake : a chronicle of change, resilience, and hope from a heartland newspaper /

From a 2017 Pulitzer-winning newspaperman, an unsentimental ode to America's heartland as seen in small-town Iowa, a story of reinvention and resilience, environmental and economic struggle and surprising diversity and hope. When The Storm Lake Times, a tiny Iowa twice-weekly, won a Pulitzer Pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cullen, Art (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
Subjects:	Storm Lake times > History. American newspapers > Iowa > Storm Lake > History. Journalism > Iowa > Storm Lake > History. Iowa > History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State & Provincial. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural.

Table of Contents:

The first question: why?
The next question: why not?
"And ye shall have dominion over the land"
Bringing home the bacon
Lessons for life
A tornado and an implosion
Lust at first sight
The newspaper is the family
State slogan: a place to grow
A purple hybrid
The young men from Jalisco
Saving a prairie pothole
A challenge to industrial agriculture
We can't go on like this
Via Dolorosa
A place to call home
"We won!"
We wish to remain what we are
Where is that song coming from?