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The Lies of the Land
Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t
Steven Conn
2023
The University of Chicago Press
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Q&A
America’s Pernicious Rural Myth
An interview with Steven Conn about his new book, “Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t.”
by
Steven Conn
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Jacob Bruggeman
via
Public Books
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April 9, 2025
Book Review
Hating the Heartland
Do Americans in rural places really “marinate in a sense of loss and perpetual disappointment”?
by
Paul Schwenessen
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Law & Liberty
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May 29, 2024
Book Review
Beyond the Myth of Rural America
Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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The New Yorker
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October 16, 2023