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The America Nobody's Talking About. Until Now.
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Every week, people visit this country for the first time and walk away stunned — by the kindness of strangers, the size of the sky, the small towns that feel like something out of a movie. Meanwhile, most of us stopped hearing stories like that a long time ago, because the algorithm would rather show us something to argue about.
I went looking for the ones worth telling anyway. Twelve of them are in this guide — some you'll recognize the names in, most you won't. All of them are true. All of them made me a little more amazed by this country than I already was.
- The chemist who almost threw away a failed experiment — and ended up saving thousands of lives
- The Depression-era project that finished two years ahead of schedule, against every odd
- The kid who designed a state flag before he was old enough to vote
- The volunteer network larger than the entire active-duty U.S. Army — that most Americans have never heard of
- Eight more, just as good
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Written by Libby Hart, an illustrated storyteller sharing the American stories worth remembering.
