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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again -- Robert D. Putnam, Paperback Cooking / Wine sometimes it feels more likeFrom the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a "sweeping yet remarkably accessible" (The Wall Street Journal) analysis of social capital, civic engagement, and American democracy 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