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

Cullen, Art, author.

Book 2018

"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 Prize for taking on big corporate agri-industry for poisoning the local rivers and lake, it was a coup on many counts: a strike for the well being of a r...

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ISBN:

9780525558873

Description:

317 pages ; 242 cm

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?

LCCN:

2018025006

Control Number:

2598068

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