Our kids : the American Dream in crisis / Robert D. Putnam.
By: Putnam, Robert D
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TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-368) and index.Description: 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781476769899 (hardcover); 1476769893 (hardcover).Subject(s): Social mobility -- United States | Social classes -- United States | Equality -- United States | American Dream | United States -- Social conditions | United States -- Economic conditionsDDC classification: 305.5/130973 Other classification: POL024000 | POL029000 | HIS036070 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 305.5 P983 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003718384 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-368) and index.
The American dream: Myths and realities -- Families -- Parenting -- Schooling -- Community -- What is to be done?
"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.
"The best-selling author of Bowling Alone offers a groundbreaking examination of the American Dream in crisis: how and why opportunities for upward mobility are diminishing, jeopardizing the prospects of an ever larger segment of Americans"-- Provided by publisher.
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