Book
The upswing : how America came together a century ago and how we can do it again
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Physical Description
465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 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.
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 century
- Drift and mastery.
Subjects
- Individualism > United States > History > 20th century.
- Individualism > United States > History > 21st century.
- Political culture > United States > History > 20th century.
- Political culture > United States > History > 21st century.
- United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
- United States > Social conditions > 21st century.