The upswing : how America came together a century ago and how we can do it again / Robert D. Putnam...
The upswing : how America came together a century ago and how we can do it again / Robert D. Putnam...
The upswing : how America came together a century ago and how we can do it again / Robert D. Putnam ; with Shaylyn Romney Garrett.
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
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G 2020/4001
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Language
English
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Physical content
465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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...
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Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
This is the worst of times... but we've been here before. During the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarized, and deeply fragmented, just as it is today. As the twentieth century opened, America became more egalitarian, more cooperative, more generous; a society on the upswing, more focu...
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The upswing : how America came together a century ago and how we can do it again / Robert D. Putnam ; with Shaylyn Romney Garrett.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-445) and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/4001
Record Identifier
74VKaMXxm4Ag
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMXxm4Ag
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ISBN
1982129158 (trade paperback)
9781982129149 (hardcover)
198212914X (hardcover)
9781982129156 (trade paperback)
DDC
302.540973
MMS ID
991024349315402626
