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
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  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-445) 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"--; 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 focused on our responsibilities to one another and less focused on our narrower self-interest. Sometime during the 1960s these trends reversed, leaving us in today's disarray. Putnam analyzes the confluence of trends that brought us from an "I" society to a "We" society and then back again.  -- adapted from jacket
ER  -