Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of GlobalismA sharp, brilliantly reported look at how globalization is changing America 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 region—and 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 immigrants 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 change—politically as well as economically—if it is to survive and prosper. |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Left Behind | 168 |
Flunking Out | 176 |
Betting the Farm | 198 |
The Blue and the Red | 221 |
Global Midwest | 245 |
Epilogue | 265 |
Notes | 273 |
Bibliography | 293 |