Description: Further DetailsTitle: Our KidsCondition: NewEAN: 9781476769905ISBN: 9781476769905Publisher: Simon & SchusterFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/21/2016Item Height: 213mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 28mmItem Weight: 313gAuthor: Robert D. PutnamLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The American Dream in CrisisISBN-10: 1476769907Description: A New York Times bestseller and “a passionate, urgent” (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility. Central to the very idea of America is the principle that we are a nation of opportunity. But over the last quarter century we have seen a disturbing “opportunity gap” emerge. We Americans have always believed that those who have talent and try hard will succeed, but this central tenet of the American Dream seems no longer true or at the least, much less true than it was. In Our Kids, Robert Putnam offers a personal and authoritative look at this new American crisis, beginning with the example of his high school class of 1959 in Port Clinton, Ohio. The vast majority of those students went on to lives better than those of their parents. But their children and grandchildren have faced diminishing prospects. Putnam tells the tale of lessening opportunity through poignant life stories of rich, middle class, and poor kids from cities and suburbs across the country, brilliantly blended with the latest social-science research. “A truly masterful volume” (Financial Times), Our Kids provides a disturbing account of the American dream that is “thoughtful and persuasive” (The Economist). Our Kids offers a rare combination of individual testimony and rigorous evidence: “No one can finish this book and feel complacent about equal opportunity”Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Our Kids
Title: Our Kids
EAN: 9781476769905
ISBN: 9781476769905
Release Date: 04/21/2016
Release Year: 2016
Subtitle: The American Dream in Crisis
ISBN-10: 1476769907
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Our Kids : the American Dream in Crisis
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Topic: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Public Policy / Social Policy, Economic Conditions, United States / 21st Century, Public Policy / Economic Policy
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2016
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 11.1 Oz
Item Length: 8.4 in
Author: Robert D. Putnam
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
