Nick Reding, Author of 'Methland'
Duration: 01:16:37 (Full Program)
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Intelligent Talk Television #188
Broadcast Date: Jul. 4, 2010
Journalist and native Midwesterner Nick Reding spent four years in Iowa prior to writing his New York Times bestseller. 'Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town' tells the heroic story of the small town of Oelwein, Iowa and the epidemic of drug abuse in rural America.
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