Summary: On The Gist, the pomposity and circumstantial evidence of the State of the Union. <br>Janesville, Wisconsin, had the oldest operating GM assembly plant in the country until 2008. The factory’s closure left thousands of employees in the lurch. Amy Goldstein’s book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1501102230/?tag=slatmaga-20"><em>Janesville: An American Story</em></a> describes the choices facing three families as they pick up the pieces of a busted local economy. <br>In the Spiel, the right things to say when you’re being nuked and the right way to say them.
