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writes very eloquent, readable prose, His readability was what made me continue through the book, I did struggle with some of the world is ending doom that he paints throughout the beginning, I thought it picked up well in the middle with good discussions about how the Midwest has changed as the economy and industry within it has changed, He returns to the gloom and doom in the last few chapters of the book and I found myself skimming most of the end, The Midwest has always been the heart of Americaboth its economic bellwether and the repository of its national identity, Now, in a new, globalized age, the Midwest is challenged as never before,

With an influx of immigrant workers and an outpouring of manufacturing jobs, the region that defines the American selfthe Lake Wobegon image of solid, hardworking farmers and factory handsis changing at breakneck speed.
As factory farms and global forces displace old ways of life, the United States is being transformed literally from the inside out, In Caught in the Middle, longtime Chicago Tribune reporter Richard C, Longworth explores the new reality of life in today's heartland and reveals what these changes mean for the regionand the country, Ranging from the manufacturing collapse that has crippled the Midwest to the biofuels revolution that may save it, and from the school districts struggling with new migrants to the Iowa meatpacking town that can't survive without them, Longworth addresses what's right and what's wrong in the region, and offers a prescription for how it must changepolitically as well as economicallyif it is to survive and prosper.
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