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Author:

Putnam, Robert D., author.

Title:

The upswing : how America came together a century ago and how we can do it again / Robert D. Putnam ; with Shaylyn Romney Garrett.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Individualism--United States--History--20th century.
Individualism--United States--History--21st century.
Political culture--United States--History--20th century.
Political culture--United States--History--21st century.
United States--Social conditions--20th century.
United States--Social conditions--21st century.
Individualism.
Political culture.
Social conditions.
United States.
1900-2099
History.

Other Authors:

Garrett, Shaylyn Romney, author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

What's past is prologue -- Economics : the rise and fall of equality -- Politics : from tribalism to comity and back again -- Society : between isolation and solidarity -- Culture : individualism vs. community -- Race and the American "we" -- Gender and the American "we" -- The arc of the twentieth century -- Drift and mastery.

Summary:

"An eminent political scientist's brilliant synthesis of social and political trends over the past century that shows how we have gone from an individualistic society to a more communitarian society and then back again -- and how we can use that experience to overcome once again the individualism that currently weakens our country"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1982129158
9781982129156
198212914X
9781982129149

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1142896590

LCCN:

2020001227

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