The upswing : how America came together a century ago and how we can do it again
by Putnam, Robert D. (Author), Garrett, Shaylyn Romney (Author)
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 th... Full description
- 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.