Remaking the Heartland: Middle America since the 1950s

(Princeton University Press) Wuthnow examines the Midwest’s social transformations over the last 50 years, its resilience through the Great Depression and the movement of residents to other regions of the United States, and its reinvention throughout the years. Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52 Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University.

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