Packed with provocative information about the social and political habits of twentieth-century Americans.

From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis that “offers superb, often counte

In his acclaimed bestselling book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert Putnam described a thirty-year decline in America's soc

American political scientist Robert Putnam wasn’t the first person to recognize that social capital – the relationships between people that allow communitie