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Bowling Alone
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Bowling Alone (2000) (edit title/settings)

The Collapse and Revival of American Community

by Robert D. Putnam (Author) (edit contributors)

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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, Bowling Alone, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement." Drawing on vast new... read more

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NO ONE IS LEFT from the Glenn Valley, Pennsylvania, Bridge Club who can tell us precisely when or why the group broke up, even though its forty-odd members were still playing regularly as recently as 1990, just as they had done for more than half a century.

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  1. Robert D. Putnam (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0684832836
Page Count: 544

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