Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Title: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Author: Robert D Putnam ISBN: 9780743203043 Publisher: Touchstone Books by Simon & Schuster Published: 2001 Binding: Paperback Language: English Publisher Description: Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work--but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement." Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and how social structures--whether they be PTA, church, or political parties--have disintegrated. Until the publication of this groundbreaking work, no one had so deftly diagnosed the harm that these broken bonds have wreaked on our physical and civic health, nor had anyone exalted their fundamental power in