Bowling Alone

“Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone is an eloquent and powerful contribution to a long tradition of important reassessments of the American condition. His argument –buttressed by impressive scholarly research- that the United States has lost much of the social glue that once allowed our society to cohere, that we are in danger of becoming a nation of strangers to one another without adequate social bonds, is certain to become a central part of our national conversation” – Alan Brinkley, Author of Liberalism and its discontents “Bowling Alone is a tour de force. Robert Putnam has amassed an impressive array of evidence for his original and powerful thesis on the decline of social capital and civic engagement in the past several decades. This thought-provoking book will stimulate huge academic and national public policy debates on the crisis of the American community”. William Julius Wilson, Harvard University “A sweeping and brilliant exposition of social capital –the invisible glue that makes our society work, especially in the Internet age. A must-read for those who wish to understand the critical questions of our time”. John Seely Brown, CoAuthor of The Social Life of Information ...

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