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James & Deborah Fallows: 2018 National Book Festival

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James Fallows and Deborah Fallows discuss "Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. 

Speaker Biography: Deborah Fallows is a linguist and writer who holds a Ph.D. in theoretical linguistics and is the author of two previous books. She has written for The Atlantic, National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times and The Washington Monthly, and has worked at the Pew Research Center, Oxygen Media and Georgetown University. Her current book, with husband James Fallows, is "Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America" (Pantheon). 

Speaker Biography: James Fallows has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic for more than 35 years, reporting from China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe and across the United States. He is the author of 11 previous books. His work has also appeared in many other magazines and as public radio commentaries since the 1980s. He has won a National Book Award and a National Magazine Award. For two years he was President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter. His new book, with wife Deborah Fallows, is "Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America" (Pantheon). 

For transcript and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8494

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