13 on Publishers Weekly hardcover nonfiction list 4 on Wall Street Journal business book list 10 on New York Times hardcover nonfiction list, featured on “Inside the List,” Sunday Book Review, July 25, 2014, by Gregory Cowles, “ Broken Furniture“ Steven Shareshian will serve as co-executive producer and Peter McGuigan as co-producer, with a certain intrepid reporter as “consultant.” Still making it in America from The Roanoke Times on Vimeo.īREAKING NEWS! FACTORY MAN is “in development” to become an HBO miniseries, executive produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman of Playtone, according to a recent announcement in. For the latest in FACTORY MAN news, please “like” my Facebook author page.

Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress prize last year, and the reviews were astonishingly good. Columbia and Harvard journalism programs awarded it the J. So I’ve written a book called “Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town,” published by Little, Brown & Co. It’s the book you can give to your mom, and she’ll understand, finally, why it is that the once-thriving little factory town she grew up in looks the way it does now. Click here to see a video of the Factory Man himself, produced by Ryan Loew. As my agent likes to call it, this book is “Moneyball” - with furniture.

phone calls to factory managers and remarkable grit. “Factory Man” is the patriotic story of a family legacy, a relentless work ethic that includes 1 a.m. More than 19,000 textile and furniture factory workers lost their jobs in Henry County and Martinsville, but two hours away in Galax, John Bassett fought back to keep his 700 factory workers employed. I first wrote a feature on him for The Roanoke Times as part of a series on the impact of globalization in southside and southwest Virginia. “He’s an asshole!” more than one of his competitors barked, when they heard I was writing a book about globalization with him as my main character. He’s a sawdust-covered good-old boy from rural Virginia, a larger-than-life rule-breaker who for more than a decade has stood almost single-handedly against the outflow of furniture jobs from America. Once in a storytelling career, if one is very lucky, a character like John Bassett III comes along. Photo by Stephanie Klein-Davis | Courtesy The Roanoke Times

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