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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 465 pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
  • Any audience
ISBN:
  • 9781982129149
  • 9781982129156
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.5/40973 23
LOC classification:
  • HM1276 .P88 2020
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.
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Books Books John Tomay Memorial Library ANF 302.54 PUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31030100312925

new book 2025 spring.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

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