THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2008

PUBLIC PROGRAM

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The American Midwest in the Age of Globalization

with

Richard C. Longworth, senior fellow, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and author

To be introduced by Marshall M. Bouton, president of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

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Richard C. Longworth, a veteran Chicago journalist and scholar, is the author of Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism, the first book about the ways in which globalization is transforming the American Midwest. Longworth spent more than a year traveling the Midwest and found the region’s two major economic activities, farming and heavy industry, turned inside out by global pressures. He discovered one booming global city – Chicago – and a galaxy of other industrial towns and cities struggling to survive. His book describes a region deeply torn by immigration, on which its future rests, and reluctant to support education, which is the one key to global success. Midwestern states are failing the global challenge, and Longworth urges new and radical regional approaches to meet this challenge.

Longworth was an award-winning foreign correspondent and senior writer for the Chicago Tribune, reporting from 75 countries on five continents. He has won every major national award for economic writing, has two Overseas Press Club Awards, and was twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Longworth is an adjunct professor at Northwestern and a mentor at The University of Chicago’s Harris School. He is the author of Global Squeeze, one of the first books on globalization, and a co-author of the pathbreaking book Global Chicago.  His new book will be available for purchase and signing at the program.

Related Materials:

• Can the Midwest Regain its Economic Clout?, Richard C. Longworth, Chicago Tribune
  
• When Life Is Elsewhere, Jonathan Eig, Wall Street Journal
  
• American Midwest in the Age of Globalization, Richard C. Longworth, Worldview, Chicago Public Radio

InterContinental Hotel
505 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611

Cash bar reception: 5:30 p.m.
Presentation and discussion: 6:00 p.m.
Cash bar reception: 7:15 p.m.

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