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Prologue to Part 1: 2008

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Goldstein, Amy. Janesville: An American Story. Simon & Schuster, 2017. Hardcover.

• In the Prologue, the last Tahoe rolled off the General Motors Janesville Assembly Plan at 7:07 a.m. on December 23, 2008.

• Workers with uncertain futures stood with pensioned retirees whose futures were assured.

• Janesville, Wisconsin, is located on I-90 three fourths of the way from Chicago to Madison.

• In 2008, it was a county seat town of 63,000.

• Janesville had been an industrious city long before General Motors started turning out Chevrolets in 1923.

• In 1900, Janesville was a city of around 1,300 descendants of settlers from the East Coast and immigrants.

• George S. Parker, a young telegraphy instructor, invented and patented the Parker fountain pen in Janesville.

• Joseph A. Craig made a deal that brought GM to Janesville to make tractors near the end of World War I.

• At...

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