The Upswing
How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
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From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis that “offers superb, often counterintuitive insights” (The New York Times) to demonstrate how we have gone from an individualistic “I” society to a more communitarian “We” society and then back again, and how we can learn from that experience to become a stronger, more unified nation.
Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism — Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: 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. However, as the 20th century opened, America became — slowly, unevenly, but steadily — more egalitarian, more cooperative, more generous; a society on the upswing, more focused on our responsibilities to one another and less focused on our narrower self-interest. Sometime during the 1960s, however, these trends reversed, leaving us in today’s disarray.
In a “magnificent and visionary book” (The New Republic) drawing on his inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam analyzes a remarkable confluence of trends that brought us from an “I” society to a “We” society and then back again. He draws on inspiring lessons for our time from an earlier era, when a dedicated group of reformers righted the ship, putting us on a path to becoming a society once again based on community. This is Putnam’s most “remarkable” (Science) work yet, a fitting capstone to a brilliant career.
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- Sylvie Gendreau
- 2024-07-21
Very interesting read to understand how to rebuild confidence in America
This is an important book to have a comprehensive approac to reform what needs to be improve for a healthy democracy.
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- Eric L, Montreal
- 2020-11-30
Illuminating and encouraging perspective in the current plight of the US
This book explains, with convincing detail, how grassroots organizers during the progressive/social gospel era (I.e., late 19th and early 20th centuries) enabled the US to leave behind the gross inequalities and injustice of the gilded age to usher in a decades-long - till 1965- March towards greater income and wealth equality, political comity, social inclusion and communitarian spirit. He describes the many events that caused this trend to reverse, bringing Americans to their sorry state today. He suggests that the downward trend can be reversed as it was more than 100 years ago. I certainly hope that this will in fact happen. I would have liked to see more discussion of other countries’ histories during the same period.
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