Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy

You don't need to take my word for it, The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Christian Science Monitor, Goodreads, and Barnes & Noble all called this "One of the Year's Best Books." Beth Macy is the daughter of a factory worker whose reporting for the Roanoke News garnered her more than a dozen national awards.  Partly based on the power of her first non-fiction book, Truevine, she used a work-in-progress grant from Harvard and Columbia Universities to allow her to complete this 451-page book. This book, a New York Times best-seller is the story of the Bassett Furniture Company of Bassett, Virginia, a small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge. I have visited the historical society in Bassett and know the good people there must have been a tremendous help to Beth Macy as she worked on this book. "Nonfiction storytelling at its finest.... It does what the best business books should: It delivers a heavily researched, highly entertaining story, at the end of which you realize