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Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper Audiobook, by Art Cullen Play Audiobook Sample

Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper Audiobook

Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper Audiobook, by Art Cullen Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Chris Henry Coffey Publisher: Penguin Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780525641520

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

25

Longest Chapter Length:

51:48 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

17 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

25:30 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

"A reminder that even the smallest newspapers can hold the most powerful among us accountable."—The New York Times Book Review Iowa plays an outsize role in national politics. Iowa introduced Barack Obama and voted bigly for Donald Trump. But is it a bellwether for America, a harbinger of its future? Art Cullen’s answer is complicated and honest. In truth, Iowa is losing ground. The Trump trade wars are hammering farmers and manufacturers. Health insurance premiums and drug prices are soaring. That’s what Iowans are dealing with, and the problems they face are the problems of the heartland. In this candid and timely book, Art Cullen—the Storm Lake Times newspaperman who won a Pulitzer Prize for taking on big corporate agri-industry and its poisoning of local rivers—describes how the heartland has changed dramatically over his career. In a story where politics, agri­culture, the environment, and immigration all converge, Cullen offers an unsentimental ode to rural America and to the resilient people of a vibrant community of fifteen thousand in Northwest Iowa, as much sur­vivors as their town.

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“Author Art Cullen and narrator Chris Henry Coffey do the near impossible by making the audiobook listener care about the intimate details of life in an Iowa small town. With a delivery as folksy and homespun as the topic, Coffey recounts Cullen’s exhaustive history of Storm Lake and his own family and neighbors…The writing is crisp and economical, like a good small-town newspaper’s should be.”

— AudioFile

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About Art Cullen

Art Cullen is half the ownership and 25 percent of the news staff of The Storm Lake Times (founded by his brother John) and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for his editorials taking on corporate agribusiness for fouling the state’s water and and despoiling its soil. He was profiled by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Katie Couric and many other places after winning. This is his first book.

About Chris Henry Coffey

Chris Henry Coffey is a film and television actor known for his role in David Schwimmer’s film Trust. He has also had roles on Broadway, including the play Bronx Bombers. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, he divides his time between New York and Los Angeles.