But The Geography of Hope goes far beyond mere technology.
The headlines yelp excitedly about the “unprecedented boom," about an “economic juggernaut," about “streets paved with black gold" as “the good times roll." The reports underneath detail the runaway growth of a city lucky to be situated ...
Lured by the promise of freedom and free land in return for establishing homesteads, large groups of blacks left the former Confederate States in the 1870s and headed west to...
The Legacy of Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) - as writer, teacher and conservationist - once moved Edward Abbey to declare him "the only living American worthy of the Nobel". Unequaled in...
These are the real-life stories of people who turn "where" into better health care, fairer law enforcement, inclusive communities, more nature, greater profits, and smarter national intelligence.
These are inspiring and hopeful words for a man in his 80s, and in darker moods in the same book, when contemplating, for example, the desperate foolishness of water policy west of the hundredth meridian, Stegner repudiates them, saying of ...