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Putnam, Robert D.
Subjects
Social mobility -- United States.
Social classes -- United States.
Equality -- United States.
American Dream.
United States -- Social conditions.
United States -- Economic conditions.
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Putnam, Robert D.
Social mobility -- United States.
Social classes -- United States.
Equality -- United States.
American Dream.
United States -- Social conditions.
United States -- Economic conditions.
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Our
kids
: the
American
Dream
in
crisis
/ Robert D. Putnam.
by
Putnam, Robert D.
Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Call #:
305.513 P992o
Subjects
Social mobility -- United States.
Social classes -- United States.
Equality -- United States.
American
Dream
.
United States -- Social conditions.
United States -- Economic conditions.
ISBN:
9781476769899 (hc.)
1476769893 (hc.)
Description:
386 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. It's the
American
dream
: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe in--a nation of opportunity, constrained only by ability and effort. But during the last twenty-five years we have seen a disturbing "opportunity gap" emerge. Americans have always believed in equality of opportunity, the idea that all
kids
, regardless of their family background, should have a decent chance to improve their lot in life. Now, this central tenet of the
American
dream
seems no longer true or at the least, much less true than it was. Robert Putnam--about whom The Economist said, "his scholarship is wide-ranging, his intelligence luminous, his tone modest, his prose unpretentious and frequently funny"--offers a personal but also authoritative look at this new
American
crisis
. Putnam begins with his high school class of 1959 in Port Clinton, Ohio. By and large the vast majority of those students--"
our
kids
"--went on to lives better than those of their parents. But their children and grandchildren have had harder lives amid diminishing prospects. Putnam tells the tale of lessening opportunity through poignant life stories of rich and poor
kids
from cities and suburbs across the country, drawing on a formidable body of research done especially for this book.
Our
Kids
is a rare combination of individual testimony and rigorous evidence. Putnam provides a disturbing account of the
American
dream
that should initiate a deep examination of the future of
our
country"-- From publisher.
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