TY - BOOK AU - Putnam,Robert D. AU - Garrett,Shaylyn Romney TI - The Upswing: how America came together a century ago and how we can do it again SN - 9781982129149 AV - HM1276 .P88 2020 U1 - 302.5/40973 23 PY - 2020/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Individualism KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Political culture KW - Social conditions N1 - 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 N2 - "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"-- ER -