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Renowned author and professor at Stanford Law School Michelle Wilde Anderson, in her 2022 book “The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America,” tells the stories and anecdotes of residents in four cities, suburbs, or rural towns across America—Stockton, California, Josephine County, Oregon, Lawrence, Massachusetts, Detroit Michigan—who are fighting against the destruction of their communities by taking matters into their own hands. Anderson tells the tales of these powerful communities in an honest, yet hopeful tone.